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A TILT WITH ROME 



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Rev. D. HALLERON, B. D., 



Pastor of the Second M. E. Church, 



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RAHWAY, N. J. 



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The following discourse was prepared as a rejoinder to the '' The Position of 
Catholics in the United States,'^ by the Rev. S. B. Smith, Roman Catholic Priest, 
of Rahway, N. J., which purports to be a reply to my sermon to the Junior 
American Mechanics, on November 30, 1879: and deHvered synoptically, in the 
Second M, E. Church, Rahway, N. J., Sabbath evening, March 7, 1880. 

I have been profoundly impressed with the dangers arising to this country 
from the pretensions and overt acts of the Roman Hierarchy and in the hope of 
contributing towards awakening a spirit of inquiry on t,his subject in the public 
mind, as well as from the most pressing invitations from numerous sources, I have 
consented to the publication of this sermon. 

As ' will be seen, Mr. Smith has suppressed the vital claims of his church in 
his sermon, in order to secure the favorable opinion of the unwary, but in so 
doing, he has discovered his Jesuitical training at the surrender of his manhood 
and Christian principle and standing. 

I have Httle fear of the dangers involved in the settlement, upon a true basis, 
of this great question, provided the pubHc are thoroughly aroused ; but from the 
apathy existing in some quarters, my gravest apprehensions are excited lest the 
purposes of the Roman Heirarchy may be attained and the nation awakened 
from its slumber to find itself in the lap of this DeHlah, fondled and petted but 
shorn of its strength, to become the target of Papal mockeries. Heaven knows 
that Rome has bhghted enough of this fair, green earth, without her addmg thereto 
this, the latest born among the Nations ! 

The sermon is divided into two parts : the first meets, specifically, the alle- 
gations of Mr. Smith ; the second part substantiates every charge made against 
the Roman Cathofic Chnrch m my sermon to the Junior Mechanics of the above 
date. 

In the presentation of historical data, in support of my position, the reader 
my be led to think that there is repetition, but a little care will show that this is 
not the fact and that the seeming difficulty arises from the close connection be- 
tween the claims of Rome to Temporal Supremacy and the issuance of her per- 



secuting edicts. 



March, 1880. 



D. HALLERON, 

Rahway, New Jersey. 



Entered according to act of Cong-ress, In the year isso, by Daniel Halleron, In the Office of the 

Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



A TILT Y/ITH ROME. 



" The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream, and he that hath my word let 
him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord." — Jere. 28:28. 

Christian friends, I appear before you to-night to reply to the sermon of Rev. 
S. B. Smith, preached in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, in this city, on 
Sabbath evening, January 4th, 1880. Probably many of you are surprised that 
I did not reply before to-night. My excuse is that while I was fully determed to 
answer the vituperations of this priest from the first, my special duties in revival 
services debarred me from fulfilling so imperious a duty before this hour. I shall 
utter harsh expressions now, not from any desire to add fuel to the flames already 
fanned by this man, but the nature of the case demands frankness that would not 
be justified under other circumstances. Let me say at the outset, that I have 
sought no controversy with my Roman Catholic fellow-citizens. In my sermon 
to the Junior American Mechanics no issue was taken with them as individuals. 
I have taken issue with the Roman Catholic Clufvch and not with the members 
composing it so much as with the Heirarchv which shapes its measures and gives 
expression to its demands. My profoundest sympathies are awakened for my 
Roman Catholic friends in this and other lands, and anything I may say to-night 
I hope will not be construed as inimical to their feelings, indeed, cannot unless 
they are participants in the deeds with which their prieshcod is charged. The 
Rev. Priest has not met my allegations respecting his church — in technical terms, 
the indictments have not been overthrown. The gentleman covers his retreat 
with sophistries which are too plain to escape ordinary inteUigence. As has been 
remarked, I have exposed the Roman Catholic Church, gave proof for most of 
the assertions made, while he simply produces individuals acting in their individ 
ual capacity without approval or disapproval of their church, in refutation to my 
statements. 

During the disgraceful Tv>^eed government in New York City, there were 
individuals composing that government who were upright and who discharged 
their trusts with scrupulous conscientiousness ; will we say, therefore, that that 
government was pure ? To make the fallacy more apparent let us throw the 
matter into a syllogism : 

All pure governments are composed of upright members. Some members 
of the Ticeed govern m.ent loere vpright: therefore Mr. TioeecVs f/oi'ernmeitt vjas 
a pure goijermnent. Hence we discover the fallacy at a glance. The same rea- 
soning may be applied to the commune of Paris, many of whose members were 
sound thinkers, calm statesmen and peaceable citizens, but the Commune itself 
was of a Utopian and fiery character. No, a party, a church, a government is 
what its leaders make it. no more and no less, and thous;h individuals bv their 



acts, seemingly, contradict the broad character of that party or church, these do 
not change its complexion in any radical sense. The Priest has pubHshed his 
sermon in the National Democart newspaper of this city. He has since pub 
hshed, what purports to be the same sermon in pamphlet form. To state 
it mildly, he commences his published discourse with a blank distortion of facts. 
His sermon purports to have been preached in Ids church on January 4th, 1880, 
but it is not published in the Democrat as delivered, while that in his pamphlet 
is distinct in many of its features from that pubHshed in the Democrat and that as 
preached from his altar. Did this man preach three sermons in refutation of my 
one ? No, he preached bnt one sermon, and yet we have three ! Again he says: 
" The Rev. Mr. Halleron wished to sow the seeds of civil and social disorder, to 
array in open conflict one class of citizens against another. I shall endeavor to 
estabhsh social peace and civil harmony." (National Democrat, January 15, 
1880.) Now in the face of this assertion, this Priest proclaims from the steps of 
his altar " It has been reported that the Methodist Minister, during the deHvery 
of his sermon to the Junior American Mechanics, paraded a stuffed (effigy ?) 
Monk and a Rosary to the amusement of his audience." This is an entire fab- 
rication. Never did such a thought enter my mind, and I have yet to hear that 
a public retraction of that slanderous fling has been made. Is this the way to 
establish " social peace and civil harmony ?" Verily, yes, according to Rome, 
whose mandates this priast obeys, for she has peace at the total annihilation or 
martyrdom (wolf and lamb harmony) of her opponents. Furthermore, " The 
Ministers dream" is the great point of attack with my reverend opponent. 
Had I not had that dream I might have been saved that severe castigation at his 
hand. Well, I dreamed, and this man comes forward as the interpreter, and his 
interpretations are so true to life that he loses his self contro! in the diatribe in 
which he indulges. '' The meaning of the dream is too -clearly explained by the 
context of the minister's sermon. The stately temple are the hberties, civil and 
religious of this country and contained and embodied (sic) in the Constitution 
of the United States. The peaceable and contented groups in it are of course the 
protestants and eminently the Methodists. The drenched crowds who basely 
raised their hands against the sacred edifice of American liberties are the Catholics 
(Roman?) The latter must be shot down," (see Democrat). " He wants to 
shoot us down hke dogs, ' (sermon as delivered but not printed). Does the con- 
text of my sermon bear the interpretation ? I say no. Though Mr. Smith's ob- 
ject was attained, for one man swung his arms in the wildest gesticulations of 
wrath and the cry was raised by another person "shoot him ! shoot him ! ' — so- 
cUtl peffce and civil harmony ! The context of my sermon shows "that one 
of the appaUing dangers Hes in the misconception of freedom. In the 
United States, the Communists of France and the NihiUstsof Russia have found 
an asylum and here they seek to propagate their principles by every conceivable 
method. (Democrat, Dec. 18, 1879). "The very name Commune has come to 
represent blood and robbery and cruelty. It is supposed to be walking about 
in the wooden shoes of the Middle Ages, in the narrow, crooked streets of the 
French Metropolis ; but one who places his ear to the ground can hear the mut- 
tering and rumbling, even under the soil of Freedom. The Chief of Police in 
the city of Chicago awakens to the fact that several thousand Communists are 
armed with Springfield rifles and are nightly drilHng in public halls in almost 
every war! of the city, and are sending emissaries to other cities. The object of 
arming is not stated; a repetition of the riots of July, 1877, may solve this mys- 
tery." — N. Y. Chrisd'm Adoocnte, May 2, 1878. " Germany has at last found it 
uejessary to take public cognizance of the frequent and mahcious attacks of the 



socialistic element in its midst, and which has of late been so rampant. Not 
only have quite a number of Socialists been returned to parliament professedly 
as such from certain districts, but their public movements in certain of the large 
cities, notably in Berlin, have been so peculiarly offensive to common decency 
and religion that it seems as if the government is in duty bound to do something 
to protect itself and the sacred cause of morality and social order.'' — {ih}<L July 
4. 1878). Now these two classes are striving for dominance in this land, and to 
these special attention was called in my sermon. Romanism was claimed as 
()»r of the dangers, but one of appaUing magnitude. Xor will I abate one tittle 
of the indictment. Has Romanism lifted up its voice in CTermany in favor of 
'• social peace and civil harmony T' It has allied itself in that country to the very 
element named and has become pronounced in its opposition to repressive meas- 
ures of the government against Sociahstic circles. *' Anything that can be made 
a source of embarrassment to Bismark and his political plans is grateful to a body 
of men (Roman Ultramontanes) that are so disloyal to the empire that they ac- 
cept, or at least smile upon any phase of opposition that can tend to weaken the 
compact and interfere with her vital measures. That this is no idle accusation 
is proved by the fact that whenever it comes to a vote in the German parliament 
on a government measure, Socialists, Ultramontes (Romanists, led by the Priests), 
and all malconteents unite to effect a defeat, the watch word being anything to 
beat Bisniark.' '' — (ibid.) These were the facts before me. 'I'ennyson was quo- 
ted by me as calling upon his patriotic countrymen for defence against a threat- 
enened invasion of England by Napolean HI. Is not this far from ••' shooting 
down like dogs."' Now this Priest says my sermon applies to Roman Catholics 
exclusively. Have I said so V Have I said that the drenched crowds were 
members of his communion ? Did I say the Roman Catholics had flung ribald 
jests against the holy edifice in which they took shelter ? Nay, verily. He does. 
He ought to know, for he carries the consciences of the people with him. He 
is acquainted with the Confessional when he pronounces ''I absolve thee." It 
must be so, for this man asserts it and he ought to know. Roman CathoHcs of 
Rahway, you stand traduced by the very Priest who ought to, and professedly 
does, rise up in your defence. 

In Rev. S. B. Smith's sermon there are numerous inaccuracies which demand 
charity at our hands, for reasons which shall soon appear ; but some facts he most 
positively garbles. This is criminal and it should be repudiated as it deserves. 

It is to be lamented that the education of the Romish priesthood in this 
country is so glaringly defective, while in many instances the foreign Priests are 
tolerably well educated in the peculiar branches of their profession. I sometimes 
fear that what happened in Ireland will occur here. Prior to the endowment of 
Maynooth College for the education of the Roman Catholic Priests in Ireland, 
their education was perfected in France and in Italy, but especially in the former 
country. Peel, believing that-ri^iis foreign education was detrimental to the love 
of the British Crown, projected Maynooth. hoping to eradicate from the minds 
of the Priests that spirit of disloyalty to the government with which they were 
inoculated in France. In this he was sadly disappointed, for, if anything, a more 
intense animosity was begotten in the minds of these men. who were fed and 
educated on the bounty of the English government, while they lost that suavity 
of manner which was so cliaracteristic of the Priests who were educated in 
France. I again assert that the Romish priesthood is an exotic, having no love for 
our institutions and burning with rancor against our Protestant civilization ; but 
if Mr. Smith is a specimen of t!ie native growth, certainly the difference in our 
favor is not crreat. 



I have charged a defective education upon the Roman CathoHc priesthood 
of this country, and as it was a dream in my former sermon that disturbed my 
opponent and provoked that pedantic harangue, I promise not to so indulge again 
but will deal in stubborn facts. 

"" I have lying before me," says Dr. Dorchester, in Zioii's Herald. Oct. 23, 
1879, "the latest catalogues of ten Roman CathoHc Colleges in this country, 
among which are those of five Jesuit colleges, namely : the Georgetown- College, 
D. C, chartered as a university in 1815; the St. John's college, Fordham, N. 
v.; the St. Francis Xavier's college, Cincinnati, O.; the College of the Holy 
Cross, Worcester, Mass., and the Boston college, 761 Harrison avenue, Boston, 
Mass., founded 1863. These colleges afford the highest culture to their students. 
We now take the standard of admission into the leading colleges and universi- 
ties of the Protestant denominations in this county, as Harvard, Boston, and 
Wesleyan universities, Amherst and F)artmouth colleges and others of like grade, 
and there is not much difference in the requirements for admission, which are as 
follows : 6 Books in Virgil's Aeneid with the Ecologues, 4 Books of C?esar, 8 
Orations in Cicero, a portion of Sallust and Ovid, Arnold's ].atin prose compo- 
sition in Latin, 4 Books of Xenophon's Anabasis, 3 Books of Homer's Iliad, the 
Greek Reader, and in some of them one book in Herodatus is required. In 
Algebra through Quadratic equations, in some of them also the whole of Green- 
leafs, Loomis's or Olney's larger Book, and in Geometry 2 Books or' 1:^ Chap- 
ters of Pierce's Geometry. But m the foregoing Roman Catholic Curriculum 
we find Sallust, Virgil and Cicero in the studies of the Freshman and Sophomore 
years. The Hst of preparatory studies in some Jesuit colleges makes no mention 
of Algebra or Geometry ; four Jesuit colleges : Georgetown, D. C, St. Francis 
Xavier's, Boston, and that of the Holy Cross include Algebra but not Geometry, 
while St. Johns, Fordham, N. Y., omits both until after the collegiate course is 
commenced. In Georgetown and St. Francis Xavier's colleges, the Greek 
Reader is the only preparatory Greek read, and in the Boston college only Luci- 
ans Dialogues are specified in the Preparatory course." So defective is this ed- 
ucation that Rev. Dr. Brov/nson, a great Roman (Catholic authority, v/hom we 
shall quote again, says : " They who are educated in our school? seem misplaced 
and mistimed in this world as if born and educated for a world that has ceased 
to exist ; comparatively few of them take their stand as scholars ; the cause of 
the failure of what we call CathoHc education is, in our judgment, in the fact that 
we educate not for the present or future but for the past." There is little or no 
attention paid to the sciences nor to the paths of research opened uj) 
by modern thought. Rome fears investigation— ^chains the mind of her Priests 
with an unmeaning and tav/dry ecclesiasticism ; indeed, it is' only by such meth- 
ods that she succeeds in her hidden schemes. In America, above all lands, 
is she cautious of men and measures ; she will spring upon her prey only 
when she has so concealed her tracks as that detection is impossible. A Priest 
that thinks for himself is a rebel against authority, is suspected of heretical ten- 
dencies, his steps are dogged by Jesuitical pursuers until he either surrenders his 
Divine endowment of independent thought or boldly disentangles himself from 
the meshes of spiritual serfdom, vvhicli is rarely done. We are therefore to 
make due allov/ances for priestly utterances on account of their defective scho- 
lastic drill, but when we find them falsifying historical data and twisting events 
out of their connection as this Mr. Smith has done, the fires of a holy indigna- 
tion must kindle in the soul and find expression in plain condemnatory utter- 
ance. 

Mr. Smith, in his sermon, has assailed the Methodist church. But first he 



is guilty of what is termed in logic — what I presume he has never been permitted 
to study — the fallacy of mistaking the question, the sure source of sophistry, and 
reasons upon that basis at mucli length. There was no claim of j)riority of ex- 
istence to Methodism in America in my sermon. Mr. Smith says : " The first 
point which the minister makes is, that Methodism has the right of possession 
against the Catholic reHgion. But is it true that Methodism obtained a foothold 
in this country prior to (Roman ?} Catholicity?" and then the Rev. gentleman 
goes on to show the claims of Romanism to suj)remacy in the United States, the 
very claim which he elsewhere repudiates in effect. I have said nothing about 
Methodism in this country, so that the Priest has erected a man of straw and 
then proceeds to batter it down. He certainly has not informed himself upon 
Methodist history else he would not have blundered so egregiously as that anv 
tyro could correct him. John Wesley did not plant Methodism in this country. 
He came to Georgia in 1735 ^^ ^ minister of the English church, but returned 
in a short time and never thereafter set foot upon these shores. On Wesley's 
arriving in London he experienced a change of heart, and in 1739 founded the 
first Methodist society in London. Methodism was planted in America by a few 
Irish emigrants from the county of Limerick, 1766, led by Philip Embury, of 
precious memory. Thus the ancient Isle of Saints, reduced to degradation by 
Romish superstitions, sprung into holy prominence on the American seaboard of 
that ocean which washed the westerly shores of his nati^'e but helpless isle 1 
Says my opponent " has Mr. Halleron forgotton that while Roman Cotholics were 
nobly lighting for independence the Methodists, as is well known, were for the 
most part on the tory side and symj)athized strongly with England?" Learned (!) 
Priest wiiere is your proof? This is a base aspersion upon the men and women 
who endured patiently the miseries of that eventful period. Methodism grew 
with remarkable rapidity, so that when in ten years the revolution opened it had 
a regular ministry. The members applied to Mr. Wesley for pastors and he ac- 
ceded to their request to the utmost of his ability. Some of these ministers on 
the commencement of hostilities returned to England, others continued in the 
discharge of their ministerial functions and maintained an impartial position on 
public affairs, which was all that could be expected of them at the time, they 
being English born. Francis Asbury was persuaded to return to England with 
Shadford, his coadjutor, but he bravely refused. Wherever the British soldierv 
abounded Methodism was cast out and it tiouri.shed only where peace prevailed 
and the sentiment was sound on colonial issues. John Wesley, while exhibiting 
the patriotic partiality for his own country, and in his calm address to the colo- 
nies ottended some members of the Methodist communion addressed a letter to 
Lord North, the then Prime Minister of England, who was determined to pros- 
ecute the war to the bitter end. '' I am," says U'esley, *' a High Churchman, 
the son of a High Churchman, bred up from childhood in the highest notions ot 
passive obedience and non-resistance, and yet in spite of all my long rooted 
prejudices I cannot avoid thinking these oppressed people asked for nothing 
more than their legal rights and that in the most modest and inoffensive manner 
that the nature ot' the case would allow. They are strong; they are valiant; 
they are one, and they are all enthusiastic. Hiey are terribly united. They 
think they are contenc'.ing for their wives and children and liberty. Are we able 
to conquer them ? We are not sure of this." Such were the words of as true an 
English patriot as ever lived ; and who even was not averse to the arming of his 
peoi^le and fighting for British supremacy in Flanders. At the termination of 
the war Wesley says of the American Methodists ^ -'We judge it best that they 
should stand fast in the libertv wherewith C^od has so strangelv made them free.'' 



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Stevens M. E. Ghiirch, vol. 2, page 183. At the conference held in New York, 
1789, it was deemed expedient to recognize in the name of the Methodist de- 
nomination, the new Federal Constitution, lately adopted, and the chief magis- 
trate, Washington, recently inaugurated. A committee waited on General Wash- 
ington to request him to appoint a day for the reception of the Bishops of the M. 
E. church, to present him with a congratulatory address. May 29 was appointed. 
Bishops Asbury and Coke, two Englishmen, presented the address, which says : 
" We are conscious from the signal proofs you have already given that you are a 
friend of mankind and under this established idea place as full confidence in 
your wisdom and integrity for the preservation of those civil and religious Hber- 
ties which have been transmitted to us by the providence of God and the glori- 
rious Revolution as we believe ought to be reposed in man, and we promise you 
our fervent prayers to the throne of grace that God Almighty may endue you 
with all the graces and gifts of His holy spirit, that he may enable you to fill up 
your important station to His glory, the good of His church, the happiness and 
prosperity of the United States and the welfare of mankind. Signed on behalf 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.'' In Washington's reply is the following : 
" 1 return to you individually and through you to your society, collectively, in the 
United States, my thanks for the demonstration of affection and the expression 
of joy offered in their behalf on my appointment. I must assure you in partic- 
ular that I take in the kindest part, the promise you make of presenting your 
prayers at the throne of grace for me, and that I Hkewise implore the divine ben- 
ediction on yourselves and your rdigious community." — [ihid vol. II, pp. 
502, 503.) This was the first recognition the United States government and its 
first Executive received at the hands of any religious organization in this country. 
Dr. Baird, a member of another religious body, in his " Religion of America," 
says : '* We recognize in the Methodist economy as well as in the zeal, the devo- 
ted piety and the efficiency of its ministry, one of the most powerful elements 
in the religious prosperity of the United States as well as one of the firmest pil- 
lars of their civil and poHtical institutions." — (p. 497.) Bancroft was not at first 
informed of the true position of Methodism in the struggles of the colonies for 
freedom, but whan he discovered it he destroyed some of his plates that had been 
already stereotyped. This historian offers a handsome tribute to our church 
when he says " The Republic has welcomed the members of Wesley's society as 
the pioneers of religion. The breath of liberty has wafted their messages to the 
masses of the people and carried their consolation and prayers to the farthest 
cabins in the wilderness." — 'BajicrofVs IliMory of America, vol. I^ p. 2(11.) 
When the red hand of internecine strife grappled for the heart strings of the 
Republic, what position did Methodism occupy then ? Hear the words of the 
immortal Lincoln : " Nobly sustained as the government has been by all the 
churches, I would utter nothing which might in the least appear invidious 
against any, yet without this it may fairly be said that the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, not less devoted than the best, is by its greater numbers the most import- 
ant of all. It is no fault in others that the Methodist church sends more soldiers 
to the field, more nurses to the hospitals and more prayers to heaven than any. 
God bless the Methodist church." — {Ladies'' Bejxhsiton/.vol. 27,/). 21)2.) In 
the group of satuary composing the National Monument to Mr. Lincoln, in 
Springfield, Illinois, stands our Bishop Simpson, as the representative of the 
American churches. In her articles of religion, Methodism enjoins loyalty to 
the governmem as a duty, and has ever given to that government her most de 
cided support. — Gene/rol Conference Methodist Episcoprd Church, 18(34.) 
Whv does this Roman Catholic traducer single out Methodism for his ])itch ? 



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Simply because his mother — Rome — hates that branch of Protestantism more 
than she does any other. It is a coutpliinent^ and ton so esteem it. 

Mr. Smith phuiies himself upon the toleration act of Lord Baltimore. 
Hear him ; " Who was it that first established in this country the principles of 
rehgious liberty ? A CathoHc '' (Roman ?) " governor and a Catholic " ( Roman ?) 
•' legislature. Sir George Calvert, called Lord Baltimore, who had been Secre- 
tary of State under James I and was a loyal Catholic, had emigrated to Mary- 
land in 1633, and there founded a colony where conscience should be free and 
every man might worship God according to his own heart, in peace and perfect 
security. Under him on April 21, 1649, the Legislature of Maryland, composed 
of eleven Catholic and three Protestant voters (I) passed the following memorable 
toleration act, &c." The Rev. gentleman again exhibits his defective education. 
The " Toleration Act " of Maryland, in 1649, was not the first legislative en 
actment which established religious liberty in this country. Sir George Calvert, 
the first Lord Baltimore, never emigrated to Maryland and founded that colony, 
for this did not take place till a few years after his death and was undertaken by 
his second son, Leonard Calvert. The following is the true statement of the 
case : Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, turned from the Protestant 
faith to the Roman Cathofic in 1624 and so lost, in a slight degree, the confi- 
dence of his master, James I of England, who was as tolerant of Romanism as 
his parliament would admit. — {Bn/icroft, vol. 7, 239 ) Virginia was settled un- 
der Royal charter from James L May 23, 1609, and the religion of the church 
of England was established by law in it. The first legislature met in Jamestown, 
16 19, and exhibited so much zeal and independence that the King of England 
bacame alarmed for the prerogatives of the crown and ever after looked with a 
jealous eye upon the doings of the colonists. Lord Baltimore personally in- 
spected the lands of the Virginians, returned to England and pressed, through 
the Prime Minister of James, for a grant of land out of that already bestowed 
upon the Virginian colony. This he obtained, in 1K32, and had inserted in the 
royal deed a clause giving religious liberty to those settHng under its provisions. 
Charles I succeed James to the English crown and his wife, being a daughter of 
the French King, was a bigoted Romanist, so much so, that the Papal Nuncio 
was established in London and Mass was said in Somerset House. She, with 
Archbishop Land of infamous notoriety, sought by every means within their 
reach the establishment of Popery within the British dominions. Her name was 
Henrietta Maria, and so ably seconded was Calvert by her in obtaining a recon- 
firmation of his charter from Charles, that he called his tract Maryland. The 
whole object of Lord Baltimore in the matter of colonizing Maryland was to 
avoid taking the oath of supremacy to the British crown, which claimed full 
power for the King as head of the church to the exclusion of the Pope at Rome, 
and by inserting the clause which secured freedom of worship to the colonists, 
Baltimore could prosecute his religion in the New World, within the limits of the 
Virginia plantations, in direct conflict with their charter and by the sanction of the 
King. The design of this nobleman was, in short, to establish in the New World 
and under British authority Roman Catholicism, in proof of which we give the 
following clause from the charter : " And I do further swear I will not by myself, 
nor any other person directly trouble, molest, or discountenance any person 
whatever, in the said Province, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, and in par- 
ticular no Roman CathoHc for or in respect of his or her religion, nor his»or her 
free exercise thereof within the said Province, so as they be not unfaithful to 
his Lordship or molest or conspire against the civil government established under 
him."' — [Tlistorical Tracts., pp. 28, 24, 2G.) A dispute arose upon the authority 



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of the King to personally grant such a charter without the sanction of the privy 
council, during which the first Lord Baltimore died. To his eldest son, 
Cecil, he bequeathed the charter and the responsibiHty for its defence. This 
young man succeeded his father in the peerage, becoming the second Lord Bal- 
timore. At the expiration of the Htigation the charter remained in tact and in 
the possession of this nobleman, who commissioned his younger brother Leonard 
Calvert to carry out the provisions of the charter. He arrived in Virginia in 
1644, with two hundred Roman Catholic colonists ; but finding the ground oc- 
cupied, he proceeded up the Potomac and settled on Kent's island where, by 
his superior numbers and arms, he carried fire and sword into the homes of 
the colonists already settled there, but who were too weak to defend themselves. 
The second Lord Baltimore, it should be said, arrogated to himself regal honors 
in the New World ; a fine of duty was prescribed for EngUsh citizens which they 
could not conscientiously pursue. An oath was administered of such a nature 
that a loyal Protestant dare not take it ; he being well assured at the same time 
that Roman Catholics could, and to extirpate Protestants from the lands of his 
colony, Baltimore, by his Heutenant, issued the following proclamation : " That 
all such persons refusing to. subscribe (the oath of allegiance to himself to the 
exclusion of the King) shall forever be debarred from any right or claim to the 
lands they now enjoy and live on, and his Lordships governor was instructed to 
seize said lands and confiscate them to his Lordship's use." — {ibid.) I have de- 
nied that Lord Baltimore's colony, led here by Leonard Calvert, enacted the first 
toleration legislation. This " Toleration Act " of Maryland was passed in 1649, 
so Mr. Smith says, and he is correct in this point. Roger Williams having 
founded the colony of Providence, Rhode Island two years after Leonard Calvert 
had landed on the shores of the Potomac, called an assembly in regular form and 
had passed in 1647, two years before the Baltimore act, a code of civil laws, in 
which occurs the following clause : "All men may walk as their consciences 
persuade them, every one in the name qf his God, and let the lambs of the 
Most High walk in this colony without molestation in the name of Jehovah, 
their God, forever and ever." — {Mass. Hist, coll.) Thus we see that to Protes- 
tants belong the honor of having passed the first Refigious "' Toleration Act " 
on this continent. Let the laurels rest upon the brow of the rightful hero. — 
{see £((ncrofl in Xoc.) Let us also remember that this -'Toleration Act" in 
Maryland was rendered in obedience to the express provisions of the charter as 
granted, the letter of which was obeyed ^\hile the spirit of toleration was cast 
out. Hence the act itself does not deserve the name of toleration. Why did 
not Mr. Smith quote a little more of that glorious_£?) instrument ? By this very 
law ( i) blasphemy against God, denying our Saviour^esus Christ to be the Son of 
God, or denying the Holy Trinity or the Godhead of the three persons, was pun- 
ishable with death and the confiscation of lands and goods to the Lord Propri- 
etary. (2) Persons using any reproachful words or speeches concerning the 
Blessed Virgin, mother of our Saviour or the holy Apostles or Evangelists, or 
any of them — for the first offence were to forfeit ^5 sterHng to the Lord Pro- 
prietary, or in default of payment, to be pubHcly whipj^ed and imprisoned, at the 
pleasure of his Lordship or his Lieutenant General ; for the second offense, to 
forfeit ;3£"io sterling, or in default to be publicly and severely whipped and im- 
prisoned as before directed, and for the third oftence, to forfeit lands and goods 
and be forever banished from the province." — (Z>o/r//>?.(//y 852.) Thus we see 
that such men as the noble Dr. Channing, whose classic sermons are to-day the 
ornament of literature, and Edward Everett, and Bancroft, the historian, and 
Charles Sumner, the great statesman, v/ould have been led to the scaffold had 



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they lived under this boasted " Toleration Act." Mr. Smith's claim is false in 
the fullest sense of the word. He doubtless followed the late Archbishop 
Hughes, in 1852, and Father Haecker in 1869, who publicly made the like 
claim of the toleration afforded Protestants by the Roman Catholics of Mary- 
land. We do not deny that some Roman Catholic laymen have shown a sound 
preference for true liberty; but their church should receive no honors therefor; 
and now while we see the intolerance of the legislation of Roman Catholic 
Maryland in elder times, it was yet far in advance of any Romish movement in 
those times. During these events. Innocent the Xth was Pope of Rome, and 
in a Bull e,c- cathedra he denounced the treaty of Westphalia, whicli ended the 
thirty-years' war by restoring peace to Germany and placing every reHgious sect 
on an equal footing, declaring it to be prejudicial to the Catholic religion, to 
divine worship, to the safety of souls, to the Apostolic See, and null and vain 
and iniquitous."" — {MenzeLvoL II, iJ. 395.) Such was the church of Rome at 
this time, and if some members of her communion proclaimed higher liberties 
on the distant banks of the Potomac, she surely has no right now to share in 
any of the honors attaching to such deeds. 

This Roman Catholic Priest refers to the fact that the Puritans were invited 
by Lord Baltimore to settle in Maryland and enjoy religious freedom there. 
Here again he is in error. The Puritans having beea compelled, through the 
persecutions of Laud to emigrate to Holland, did so under the lead of John 
Robinson, but chafing under the fact that they were considered as exiles, they 
sent agents over to England, who, after they had obtained a patent from King 
James I for the free exerc/ise of their religion in <tny part of America where 
they should settle, treated first with the Viginian company for a large tract of 
land in the northern part of that country, but upon better consideration they 
abandoned their purchase and entered into articles with such merchant adventu- 
rers as were wiUing to encourage their settling in the southwest parts of New 
England. — {N'eaVs Hist of the Puritans.) The Puritans never fully settled 
in Maryland, never obtained control of the government and never revoked the 
" Toleration Act." Though Mr. Smith asserts that they did all these things. 
They had a perfect right to settle where they pleased by letters patent from the 
King and needed not the invitation of Lord Baltimore to settle in Maryland, 
which was included in the Virginia Plantations, to which, as we have seen, they 
had a perfect title, Mr. Smith indulges in a fling at Puritanic persecutions in 
New England ; such is the lamentable fact, and every Protestant sincerely dep- 
recates it. Does the Romish church deprecate the persecutions carried out under 
her solemn sanctions ? Never ! even in this day of enlightened thought is she 
ashamed of her foul cruelties? Does Mr.. Smith himself deprecate the doings of 
the blasphemous and horrible inquisition V Not once, while every Protestant 
Jew and infidel deprecate the persecutions to which the inoft'ensive Friends were 
subjected in New England. Mr. Smith stated, I understand, in his sermon from 
his altar, that the Roman Catholics, while offering liberty of religious opinions 
to all in Maryland, were driven out of New England. Why has he suppressed 
this in his published discourse ? Let us see. From the time of the foundation 
of the Plymouth colony the Jesuits sought in every conceivable form to harrass 
the poor pilgrims. These were lonely, poor, far from their native land and, amid 
faUing tears, sought to erect a government under which they might have 
" freedom to worsnip God.'' The Indians, in many instances, were instigated to 
acts of cruelty by Frenchmen. A war was commenced which lasted ten years. 
— {Neal^s Puritans, vol. IT, p. 423.) The Indians were incHned to peace, but 
urged by the French, they fell upon the town of North Yarmouth and killed 



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several of the inhabitants. — {ibid chapter X^ f. 439.) In the memorable dec- 
laration of the gentlemen merchants and inhabitants of Boston and the country 
adjacent, April i8, 1680, complaints were made which are touching in the ex- 
treme. They say : " To get us within reach of the desolation desired for us, it 
was no improper thing that we should first have our charter vacated and the 
hedge which kept us from the wild beasts of the field effectually broken down ; 
our charter was in a most injurious pretence — scarce that— of law, condemned 
before it was possible for us to appear at Westminster in the legal defence of it ; 
we must not think the privileges of EngHshmen must follow us to the end of the 
world, accordingly we have been treated with multiplied contradictions to magna 
charta, the rights of which we laid claim unto ; without a verdict ; without a jury 
sometimes, have people been fined most unrighteously, and some not of the meanest 
quahty have been kept in long and close confinement without any the least in- 
formation appearing against them or habeus corpus allowed unto them." And 
so we find them cast into prison for attempting to swear in court by raising the 
hand. Their title to their property was called in question, and though for 60 
years in peaceable possession thereof and having paid a regular price therefor, 
they were ejected therefrom; and the governor, appointed by James II, a Roman 
CathoUc King, gave these estates to his own creatures. We find a memorial of 
the Jesuits addressed to King James II to not only root out the Protestant re- 
ligion, but to prevent even the possibility of its revival, outlined as follows : "An 
Inquisition formed according to that of Spain. The authority of the church should 
take the place of that of the King, the civil powers to be subject to the ecclesi- 
astical. That the succession to the crown and the state of the Catholic religion 
should be so linked together that one might depend upon the other and one be 
the assurance of the other." — {NeaVs Hist. Purifans^ vol. II, pp, 4SS^ 441.) 
Shall we censure these pilgrims for excluding Jesuits from among them ? It was 
a measure of self-protection simply ; and while, as remarked, Protestants every- 
where repudiate the persecutions into which their zeal carried the Puritans, 
Rome adheres to her persecuting heroes, has canonized Dominic and prays to 
him to deliver them from all heretics (Protestants). 

ROMAN CATHOLICS IN THE REVOLUTION. 

Let us turn briefly to consider the attitude of Romanism to the American 
Revolution. The Rev. Priest dwells at great length upon the achievements of a 
few patriotic Roman Catholics, specially Carroll, of Carrolton, and Commodore 
Barry ; also the assistance France and Spain rendered to the colonial government 
in its struggles for freedom, and the gratulatory expression of Washington, I do 
not desire to asperse the character of individual laymen of the Romish church, 
nor deprive patriotism of one word of the laudation it deserves; but when we 
examine the question in its religious and historical bearing, we discover the ani- 
mus that actuated these nations and influenced these men; nor can Rome in this 
instance claim any praise. Was assistance rendered the colonies at this time to 
break down a Protestant power, despoil a Protestant foe, and to aggrandize 
themselves at the expense of England ; or to relieve the oppressed ? Without 
fear of contradiction we assert that the former is the truth. Just previous to, 
and indeed during the Revolution, England was at war with both France and 
Spain, and had repulsed a terrible assault by the combined forces of these two 
countries against Gibraltar ; chafing under their defeat, they hailed the American 
Revolution as a sure method of weakening the strength of their too powerful 
foe. England at this time was the only Protestant power in Europe of any 
"•reat force. Prussia was only rising into prominence ; ?Iolland was on the wane; 
Sweden was too far removed to be considered a danger by the Councils of Eu- 



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rope. Hence the activities of the Jesuits, the sending over of French navies 
and the bestowing of largesses upon the colonists by Spain for the prosecution 
of the Revokition. Many wise men feared the result would prove disastrous to 
Protestanism ; but God, who is rich in mercy, turned the tide of events against 
C^atholicism o.nd established upon a purer basis that Protestantism which is the 
talisman of liberty and the conservor of our Heaven endowed rights. In 
proof of my position we need only refer to a few events, which transpired at 
that time. A French armament of forty ships of war, under the Due de An- 
ville, set sail from Nova Scotia in 1746, while the colonies were chafing under 
British misrule, to destroy Protestant New England. " Our fathers feeling," 
says Joseph Cook, •' that their only safety was in God, appointed a day of fasting 
and prayer in all their churches. Thomas Prince, pastor of the old South 
Church, Boston, offered in his pulpit, prayer to Almighty God to frustrate the 
evil devices of political and ecclesiastical tyranny. While prayer was being offered 
a tornado swept over the country, shaking the sacred edifice perceptibly and 
tolling the bell in the tower. The holy man paused in his prayer and asked that 
that very wind might put the enemy to discomfiture. The greater part of that 
French fleet was wrecked in that tempest. The Due de Anville and his second 
officer committed suicide; the enterprise was abandoned and never resumed." 
The following is the language of the colonists, in deprecation of the granting, by 
the British government, of large concessions to the Romanists in Canada, in 
1784 ; " Nor can we suppress our astonishment that a British Parliament should 
ever consent to establish in that country a rdigion that han deluged your island 
ht blood and dispersed, impiety, bigotry^ persecntioit^ murder and rehellion 
throughout every part of the world.^'' If Romanism was the factor in the suc- 
cess of these colonists, claimed by Mr. Smith, how could they use such language ? 
'• How painful, ' says Louis XVI, " to be obliged, for reasons of state, to sign 
orders and commence a great war (in favor of American Independence; con- 
trary alike to my v^^ishes and my opinions." — Corresp. Loa.is JCVI, in Alliso)i\s 
History of Europe^ p. bl . N'ote.) 

Suppose, now, that the American colonies had revolted from France, how 
would the Romanists in this country have acted as inspired by their Priests? 
Would Jesuits trumpet the claims of the Continental Congress for recognition 
by European powers ? Again, suppose these Roman Catholic countries had 
even remotely thought so mighty a Protestant power would be the outcome of 
that revolution would they have assisted her in achieving her freedom? Nay! 
every act of Romanism would be towards the entombment of both contestants 
in a common grave, so that she might practice her mediaeval mummeries without 
hindrance. We- Uft up National thanksgivings to God for being a free, 
enlightened, triumphant Protestant nation, and awaking to the duties which 
freedom imposes, which the Bible enjoins, and which a pure religion urges upon 
its professors, and which history is eloquently calling us to discharge, we say to 
Jesuitical trickery; Romish bigotry and Priestly aggressions, thus far shalt thou 
come and no farther. Rev. Mr. Smith claim.s Charles Carroll, of CarroUton, as 
a true patriot and a sincere Catholic. His patriotism we admit, and gladly : his 
Romanism we deny and for cause. Does a true Roman Catholic help to build 
Protestant churches? Is it not a sin as bad as rape, or slander or blasphemy, 
and that needs a severe and long penance to its forgiveness, according to Mr. 
Smith's church ? And now with this before Charles Carroll, he generously con- 
tributed of his private means for the erection of a Protestant church in this very 
state of New Jersey, and subscribed his name to the church register. All honor 
to Charles Carroll, of CarroUton. Roman Catholicism was established, by law. 



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in this country. 150 years prior to the Bevokition, and yet only one Roman 
Catholic name is appended to the Deda.ra.tion of Independence, out of 56. 

THE MAGNA CHARTA AND ROMANISM. 

I must again quote Mr. Smith : " What ! the Catholic church the foe of 
every form of liberty ! Did the Rev. Minister ever hear of the Magna Charta 
Libertaturn^ extorted from the King of England on July 15, 12 15, by the 
Catholic barons, under the lead of Archbishop Langton, of Canterbury ?" In- 
deed, I have, but instead of Roman Catholicism deriving any honors from its 
enactment, she has covered herself with lasting disgrace, which we now propose 
to show. Innocent III, the then reigning Pontiff, was a man of consummate 
arrogance, of great natural abiHties, and overmastering regal ambitions. By a 
fearless activity, joined to a questionable morahty, he obtained the trinity of his 
profoundest longings — namely : sacerdotal sovereignty, regal monarchy and do- 
minion over Kings. The steps that led immediately to the granting of the 
Magna Charta, are as follows : Hubert Archbishop, of Canterbury, having died 
in 1203, the Monks of Canterbury were divided between two aspirantes for the 
vacant See, v/hile King John desired to advance to it the Bishop of Norwich. 
This division pleased the Pope, as it gave him the desired opportunity of placing 
Stephen De Langton in that position. King John sent a delegation of fourteen 
Monks to Rome, to have ratified his choice of a successor to Hubert. Innocent, 
on their first interview, announced his decision of elevating De Langton to the 
position, and required the Monks to acquiesce. They pleaded their oath to the 
King, given in the most solemn manner, to support the claims of Norwich ] 
from this oath the Pope absolved them, when all but one, Elias DeBrantefield, 
gave their consent to the choice of his holiness. Innocent immediately dis- 
patched a present of four rings, with suitable comments, to King John, who was 
elated with the tawdry g\it—{3fatt. Pares.) But, when, in a few days there- 
after, the Monks returned from Rome and announced the consecration, by the 
Pope, of Langton to the See of Canterbury, he became furious and refused to 
receive the papal appointee. The Pope laid England under an interdict, during 
which, matrimony was solemnized in the church yards, the churches closed, the 
dead cast into trenches without religious ceremony, and every circumstance that 
could add to the horror was eagerly sought to inspire the public mind with awe. 
{Hume, iwl. /, page 110.) These matters continued for two years, and John 
continuing contumacious, the Major excommunication was hurled against him 
from Rome, and the English Bishops were commanded to pronounce this sen- 
tence from their altars. In 1211, Pandulphus or Pandulph and Durand were 
dispatched by the Pope to England as legates, who having met the King and 
parliament, demanded their submission to Innocent^n temporal- matters. Pan- 
dulph then and there published the sentence of excommunication against John 
in a loud voice, absolved all his subjects from their oath of allegiance to him, 
and declared that neither he nor any of his posterity should ever reign in Eng- 
land. The following year the Pope excommunicated all who in any way obeyed 
the King, or even held any connection with him. Phillip Augustus, of Erance. 
was authorized by Innocent to seize the English crown, for which he and all that 
participated with him should receive absolution from their sins. The Barons 
now seeing their opportunity to remove the burdens j^laced upon them by royal 
order, grew restive and clamored for relief, whereujjon John surrendered to the 
Pope. Pandulph was immediately dispatched from Rome to receive his sub- 
mission, to whom the King made the following declaration, on his bended 
knees : '" I, John, by the grace of God, King of England, freely grant unto God 
and the Holy Apostles F*eter and Paul, and to the Holy Romish church, our 



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mother, and unto the Lord Pope Innocent and to his Catholic successors, the 
whole kingdom of England and Ireland, and shall hold them of him (Pope) and 
of the Roman chuich as second after him. — Dowlirtg^ p. 291.) Then John de- 
posited his crown in the lap of Paudulph who retained it for five days, and on 
the legate being presented with the first installment of five hundred marks, the 
semi-annual Tribute of England to the Pope, he kicked it from him and stamped 
upon it, to convince the trembHng and craven King that the Pope was his abso- 
lute lord. Langton now assumed the mitre of the See of Canterbury, and John, 
having made fast friends with Rome, increased the burdens of the Barons, who, 
after various petitions, presented their demands to the King for a re-enactment 
of the charter, granted years before by Henry I to his subjects. The King sum- 
moned the people to arms and invited P'rench mercenaries to quell the fractious 
Barons. This exasperated the sturdy yeomanrs- still more, so that they proceeded 
to take measures for enforcing their claims. In his extremity, the King appealed 
for assistance to the Pope, who e.xcommunicated forthwith the Barons, and 
ordered Langton to issue that dread sentence against them. Langton declined, 
and Paudulph, who was still in England, reminded the Archbishop of his duty, 
whereupon the worthy Englishman replied that if the King did not dismiss those 
foreign troops, he would excommunicate everyone of them. The Barons pur- 
sued their purpose, till at last the Manna Charta was wrung from the reluctant 
Joim. — {f^ee Mfttt. Pares, page 192. Creaseifs Constitutional History^ par/e 
\\'-\. This concession Pope Innocent opposed with all his might, and Langton 
was deposed for the part he acted in obtaining the charter of EngHsh liberties, 
and died in disgrace. Innocent absolved the King from obeying the provisions 
of the Ma.fpai Charta. Pope Gregory X annulled that same instrument at the 
request of Edward the I and received for the deed a plate of gold, but so ener- 
getic were the Englishmen, that ever after the Kings and Popes dared not lay 
their defiling fingers upon .so sacred an Instrument. The Catholic Reciew for 
December 1872, very complacently claims that Protestantism is deeply indebted 
to the Catholic church, because, forsooth, Columbus discovered American and 
that Catholic Barons obtained the Magna Charta and so Mr. Smith follows suit 
in school boy fashion. Was ever a claim so brazen or preposterous ? when 
Rome caused Columbus to languish in a damp dungeon for years and thundered 
excommunications against the very heroes that dared to wrench from a coward 
King their precious liberties. 

THE GRANTS MADE BY NEW YORK CITY TO IHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 

Rev. Mr. Smith, under this head, says : " Would you believe it, dear brethren, 
that the minister's assertion is wholly unfounded.? The Catholic" (Roman?) 
" church in New York City holds in her avaracious maw not even one inch of 
ground, for which she has not returned its fall eqahaleut. It is true that three 
charitable institutions in New York City, conducted by Catholics"' (Roman ?^) 
'• have obtained grants of land from the city ; but it is also true that at least 
sixteen Protestant institutions have also obtained such grants from New York 
City. Please observe that the grants of land to Catholic charitable institutions 
are simply charitable trusts, and were in no sense given to the church as such or 
for church purposes." Now observe the language of this paragraph. 

I. — The Priest does not say the minister's assertion is wholly unfounded, 
but in a qualified way — interrogatory as *■ would you believe it, dear brethren, 
that the minister's assertion is wholly unfounded ?" 

2. — Then he asserts that the Catholic church in New York City holds * * * 
not even an Inch of ground for whn-h she has not rctnrned its fall eejulvalent. 
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3- — Then he specifies the following Catholic Institutions that have received 
such grants of land from the city. 

4. — Now, I assert the contradiction is too plain to deceive any man who, at 
all, weighs language. The sophistry arises from the difference in the use of the 
word church. Here Mr. Smith takes the term out of its generic meaning and 
apphes it to its specihc rendering — a place in which Mass is said, while my use 
of the word church and his use of it throughout, applies to the Catholic church 
in its broad or generic capacity. He claims for the Catholic church the discov- 
ery of America ; the act of toleration in Maryland, the success of the American 
Revolution; the securing of tht Magna (J/iarUi; surel3% this was not praying 
with the Rosary or offering the incense of the Mass, and yet the Priest claims 
these (discovery of America, &c.,) as the acts of his church ; but now it suits his 
purpose to use the word church out of its accepted general sense and he adopts a 
contracted special signification for it. ' This is in direct violation of a simple 
canon of logic, and is the plainest sophistry and entirely fallacious. 

We shall now put to this reverend gentleman a few plain question touching 
these institutions, as distinct from the church : 

I. — Is not the education in these institutions Roman Catholic to the ex- 
clusion of any distinctively Protestant ? 

2. — Are not the corporators ot these institutions all members of the Roman 
Catholic Communion and principally members of the Priesthood ? 

3. — Is there a single person in the direct employment of these institutions 
of the Protestant persuasion ? 

4. — Is the state allowed full supervision, or even partial care in their man- 
agement ? 

5. — In short, were not these institutions founded and endowed as distinctly 
Roman Catholic Institutions, to be held, controlled, directed, simply and .solely 
by the members in good and regular standing in the Roman Catholic Commu- 
nion ? 

Now, I here assert, without fear of successful contradiction, that all these 
institutions named by Mr. Smith, as only Roman Catholic institutions, are as much 
under the control of that church in the management of their affairs, in the ap- 
pointment of officers and in the exclusive control of the religious and educational 
interests involved, as any church edifice of that denomination in New York City. 
Indeed, by parity of reasoning, I might say, this church is not held by the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, but it is held for the Methodist Episcopal Cinirch, what 
shall we say to a man that, to shield his church, adopts such tactics. Improot 
anior^ quid non raortalia pe.ctora cogis I 

Rev. Mr. Smith either said positively, or made the impression upon the 
minds of his audience that he personally consulted the records of New York 
City on the grants of land *to Roman Catholic Institutions. And he asserts in 
his published discourse, in the most positive manner that not an inch of real 
estate has his church received from New York City witliout having paid its full 
equivalent for it. The following is some of the real estate given by the city of 
New York to the Romish Church : 

The Cathedral block, and the block in the rear which has a small brick 
chapel on it, were obtained from the city as follows : (i ) The church got pos- 
session of a lease from the city at a nominal annual rent ; (2) When forfeited for 
non-payment of this rent, the city waived the forfeitures, and on payment by the 
church of $83.32, converted the lease into a fee ; (3) This lot, eight hundred 
feet long, running from Fifth to Fourth Avenues, had no frontage on Fifty-first 
street, but was cut off from that street by a strip ten inches wide on Fifth Av- 



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enue, and five feet six inches wide on Fourth Avenue. The city made an even 
exchange with the church of this freehold strip for a much smaller leasehold strip 
on the block above. This gave the church the whole block — now by the exten- 
sion of Madison Avenue through it, two blocks ; and then the city paid the 
church $24,000 for said extension of the avenue, and also gave it $8,924.84 to 
pay an assessment, thus making substantially a donation of these two blocks — 
worth now, without buildings, at least. $1,500,000. and a gift in money of $32,- 
928.84. 

The city, also, gave the church the block above this, from Fifth to Fourth 
Avenues, now two blocks, by two leases for ninety-nine years at $1 a year rent 
each. These two blocks, without buildings, are worth now, at least, another 
$1,500,000. 

The city, for $r a year, gave to the Archbishop for the •' Sisters of Mercy '' 
half a block of land on Madison Avenue, between 8ist and 82d streets. This, 
without buildings, is worth now at least $200,000. 

The city, for $r a year, gave for the ^' Sisters of Charity" a whole block of 
land on Lexington Avenue, between 68th and 69th streets. This, without build- 
ings, is worth now at least $300,000. 

Total, FIVE AND A HALF BLOCKS OF LAND IN THE BEST PART OF THE CITY, WORTH 
$3,500,000. 

We repeat " Whole Blocks in her avaracious maw truly." 
We now come to the grants of money to the Roman Catholic Institutions for 
eleven years. 

The precise figures are as follows : In 1869 the Roman Catholic Church 
received from the city $771,612; in 1870, $649,495; in 187I, $502,592; in 
1872. $421,674; in 1873, $338,336; in 1874; $326,797; in 1875, $459,187; 
in 1876, $544,285; in 1877, $588,677 ; in 1878, $710,350; in 1879, $657,107. 
Let the ascending scale be observed. The daughters of the horse-leech, says the 
Book of Proverbs, ever cry, '' Give ;" the daughters of the Roman Catholic 
Church, at least in New York, never cry " Enough." The brood is large ; thirty- 
one charitable institutions of this one sect are beneficiaries of the city. Among 
them the FoundHng Asylum has had from us in eleven years $1,450,223 ; the 
Institution of the Sisters of Mercy, $278,630; the House of the Good Shepherd, 
$254,139; the Roman Cathofic Orphan Asylum, $188,819; and still, despite 
these subsidies, the Church's poor are in all our streets. Total for i r years, 
$6,008,112.03, $546,192 per year. Among these institutions are twenty-six 
churches as distinct from Schools, Reformatories, &c. They also embrace Con- 
vents, which we know are absolutely Romish. These grants were considerably 
reduced in 1872, in 1873 and 1874, through the exposures of Mr. Dexter A. 
Hawkins, but for the last few years they have increased, owing to the manipula- 
tion of the most carefully drawn bills in the interest of the Roman Catholics, and 
by astute lawyers paid for that purpose. 

We now glance at the real estate acquired by the (Ionian Catholic Church 
in Brooklyn, and the methods of that acquirement by its Priesthood. 

An Irishman, Cornelius Heeney by name, purchased a long time ago a farm 
near what was then the village of Brooklyn, but is now one of the most populous 
parts of that city. It was about a mile in length, and three hundred and fifty^c 
in width. It now covers nine city blocks, or two hundred lots, and extends from 
Court street to the river, is bounded on the sides by Warren and Pacific streets. 
Heeney lived to the great age of ninety-four years, was a Catholic, but his rela- 
tives were Protestants. When he had reached his ninetieth year, says Mr. Haw- 
kins, "the Priests managed to surround him with their satellites, to exclude his 



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relatives from his house, and to obtain a will from him giving to institutions of 
the Roman Cathohc Church nearly his entire estate." Most of the estate was 
devised to a benevolent society not incorporated. During the four last years of 
this Irishman's life the Priests studiously prevented all access of kindred to him. 
They had the will already drawn to suit their purpose, and it was all important to 
guard against the possibility of alteration. To make sure of their object, Heeny 
was, one year before his death, declared a lunatic, and one of their own friends 
appointed trustee of the estate. Priesrly astuteness did not stop here ; before 
the property was acquired, an act of the Legislature was obtained exempting 
forever from taxation all the estate, real and personal, v/hich the exjoectant society 
should hold. In 1848 Mr. Heeney died, faithfully vv'atched over to the last by 
his ecclesiastical legatee. The property is now immensely valuable ; if taxed, it 
would bring mto the treasury of the city of Brooklyn $100,000 ])er annum. The 
efforts to obtain the repeal of the law which exempts it from taxation have failed 
because the local politicians fear to- lose the influence of the Church. 

I was so surprised at these gifts, that I waited personally upon Mr. Haw- 
kins, at his office, Wall street,. Ne\v York City, and he stated, positively, that he had 
made the matter a study for years, and that the figures were gone over by him- 
self, and were absolutely correct. When the Protesrant denominations 
waked up to the enormity of this evil, they petitioned the Legislature, in 1867-S. 
to abolish ail appropriations to sectarian institutions, and that year — 1867-8 — our 
of 13 grants to Roman Cathofic Institutions was one of $5,000 to the Voung 
Men's Christian Asseciation, New York City, which that association never sought 
but peremptorily decfined to receive it through its president, William E. Hodge. 

We now turn to the statements of Rev. Mr. Smith, as to the grants oi land 
to other Sectarian Institutions, and we find that many of his statements are at 
variance vv^ith the facts. 

To many of the institutions of the Protestant faith nan:ied by Mr. Smith 
as having received grants of land, I addressed a letter of inquiry, in which were 
the following two questions : 

I. — What extent of real estate has been donated to your institution by the 
city of New York, and if donated, v/hen, and at what time ? 

2. — Is your institution strictly sectarian in the sense in which Roman Catli- 
olic Institutions are 'i 

Mr. Jones, superintendent of Randalls Island Reformatory Institution, 
which is claimed by Mr. Smith to have received 36 acres in lieu of property held 
by it on Madison Square, replies as follows : 

House of Refuge, Randall's Island. 
New YoRic (Harlem P. O.) Feb. 17, 1880. 
Rev. D. Halleron ; 

Pastor 2d M. E. Church, Rahway, N. J. 

Dear Sir: — Yours of the i6th inst. is received a,nd contents noted. I shall 
send you a copy of the Act of Incorporation of the society which established 
and still directs the aifairs of this House of Refuge. The real estate belonging 
to the society can be used for no other purpose other than that named in the 
act above referred to, and when the society ceases to exist, then the real estate, 
Sflcluding buildings and improvements as well, goes back to the city and becomes 
a* part of the Sinking Fund of the same. Thus, you see, the society has no 
claim upon any real estate and holds none, excei)t for the purposes described in 
the Act of Incorporation. The Flouse 01 Refuge is a State Institution, gov- 
erned by a society created by the State for a special and specific object, and dif- 
fers from the Roman Catholic Institutions, which are governed wholly by the 



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church. The House of Refuge is no way sectarian. The Board of Managers, 
consisting of thirty men, is composed of men of different creeds, incUiding Roman 
Cathohcs, not, however, because they are of these different creeds, but because 
of their broad Catholic spirit and their wilHngness to work in a benevolent cause 
without fee or reward. The body of officers and employes are similarly com- 
posed. jN'o sectarian teaching is allowed, but all are expected to hve and teach 
Christian lives. We have no endowment and seek none, our appropriations 
come annually from the state — what is needed more than the sums received from 
theatre licenses, education money, and the labor of the inmates — made for cer- 
tain specific purposes and the expenditure of it. and all other money is accounted 
ior to the State authorities according to the terms of the appropriation We can 
receive inmates only on commitment by a magistrate having jurisdiction. Thus, 
you see, the House is a Public Institution, appointed by the authority of the 
state for certain purposes, namely : the reformation of delinquent youths of both 
sexes, and that it cannot, under it- charter, become sectarian in any sense, and 
cannot in any way come vmder the control of any religious denomination. The 
Child's Nursery, on this Island, is in charge of the Commissioners of Public 
Correction and is a city institution and a part of tiie Alms House department of 
the city of New York. Yours truly, Israel C Jonks, vSup't. 

From this letter we see that this institution is penal ; commitments to it are 
by the magistrates upon the commission of crime, &c., is as much so as any gaol 
in the countrv, but is confined to bovs and srirls under ai^e. We also see that 
it is entirely non-sectarian, having Roman CathoHcs upon its board of manage- 
ment. Mr. Smith claims it as sectarian, because it has a Protestant Chaplain. 
Sing Sing Prison has a Methodist Minister as its chaplain, is it therefore a Meth- 
odist society? The Nursery on Randall's Island. Mr. Smith claims, has received 
a grant of 15 lots and is sectarian. Mr. Jones, who knows, says it is part of the 
poor house system of New York City, and is unsectarian. Mr. Smith claims 
the Protestant Orphan Society, under the control of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, received a grant of land from the city of New York, consisting of 
100x305 feet on 49th street and Lexington Avenue. To my letter as above, 

I. — What extent of land has been donated to you by the city of New York, 
&:c.? The Directress replies : JVone at all ; our eyidoirments are only from pri- 
nife hidirhJiKds. 

2. — Is your institution sectarian, &c.? The reply is: JV.s',^ 

The Mount Sinai Hospital received a lease of land at a nominal annual 
rental, but is entirely -non-sectarian, as the following shows : 

Mount Sinai Hospital, 
New York. Feb. 2 2d, 1880. 
1). Halleron, Esq.: 

Pastor 2d M. PI Church, Rahway. N. J. 

Sir : — 

Question I. — We never received any donation of land from the city, but 
hold a lease from the same on land bounded by 66 and 67 streets, from Lexing- 
ton avenue, through half the block, for 99 years at the nominal rent of $1.00 per 
year. 

Question II. — Our hospital is non sectarian, i. e. it is supported to the ex- 
tent of a cost of about $50,000 per year, by members of the Jewish faith, but 
NO distinction whatever is made as to the nationality, creed or religion of 
iNTV APPLICANT, in fact, these particulars are only known after the admission of 
the apphcant. Joseph L. Siherer, Sec'y Exec. Com. 

.'^. Luke's Hospital. The answer is not full, owing to the nonacquaintance 



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of the writer with the early history of the Institution ; but it also is non-sectarian 
in receiving the suffering. 

"With regai'd to our work, I must say, that our rules admit any case of acute 
disease which is not contagious, and this without any reference to the religious 
convictions of our patients. Geo. S. Baker, Pastor and Sup't." 

"The Colored Orphan Asylum received from New York City," says Mr. 
Smith, "in 1842, a tract of land on Fifth Avenue, &c." The Directress writes 
me, in response to my inquiries as above : 

No. 65 W. 36TH S'J\ 
New York, Feb. 19th, 1880. 
Mr. Halleron. 

Dear Sir : — Our institution stands on a block of ground purchased from 
individuals at a cost of $65,000. We receive from the city a small sum for the 
board of each child, which would otherwise be entirely supported by the city. 
We also receive our portion of the money from the Board of Education, ac- 
cording to the number of our children in our schools. As to being >>>ectariatiy 
we are Protestant. We have paid all assessments, water rates, &:c., to the city, 
the same as though we were private individuals. If I can ascertain the address 
of the pastor of St. Phillip's Church, I will send him your letter. 
Yours, &c., Grace Van Dusen, 

Treas. of the Assoc'n for benefit of Col. Orphans. 

" The Church of the Redeemer received large grants from the city of New 
York," says Mr. Smith. 

" It is quite true that the Church of the Redeemer is built on city lots. About 
1864, in the early days of the " ring," and before I came Rector of the Parish, a 
great deal of property was being given away to the Roman Catholics, and Mr. 
Farly, alderman, a great power in those days, had set apart the block between 
Madison and Fourth avenues and 8ist and 82d streets for the Sisters of Mercy 
for their School, Convent, &c. There was a good deal of talk about so much 
property being given away to the Romanists, and the grant to us was simply in- 
tended as a quietus to the public. The use of twelve lots was given to the Church 
of the Redeemer at the pleasure of the Common Council, for the purpose of erect- 
ing thereon a Church, Rectory, School House, and that is our title. We cannot 
mortgage ; we cannot sell; we cannot divert from the original intention. 

Yours, &c., 
Rev. D. Halleron. T. W. Shackelford." 

There are three points in this development that I want especially noted : 

I. — Many of the Protestant Institutions named by Mr. Smith are strictly 
non-sectarian and are hospitals or public alms houses ; six to seveii out of the 
twelve, according to Mr. Smith's own showing. 

2. — Roman Catholics claim any institution in which they cannot have ex- 
clusive control of the religious teaching, as Protestant and Sectarian. They will 
enter into no compromise in the matter or be satisfied with a part of the services. 
They must have the whole or nothing. Randall's Island Reformatory has been 
hounded by the Roman heirarchy, in New York, in every conceivable form. 
Mr. Jones has been unsparingly denounced by them, though in every instance 
he has come unsinged from the furnace. 

8. — The Roman Catholic Church in New York calls all her institutions 
charitable, thereby covering a multitude of duties — teaching the prayers upon 
the Rosary, proselyting Protestants, watching the Legislature for large bounties, 
as well as feeding hungry Nuns. Monks and Priests and children — for she regards 



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us as out of the reach of salvation and it is a charity to convert us to Romanism 
and thus save our souls. 

All the above letters are in my possession and can be produced at any time. 
They flatly contradict Mr. Smith, as any person can see ; indeed, so glaringly, that I 
hesitated to present them. But as they are voluntary responses to respectful in- 
quiries, the interests of truth demand the exposure. 

If a Protestant minister errs, his people go forward in the paths of rehgion 
with the unerring word of God as a guide. If a Roman CathoHc Priest errs, 
great indeed are the consequences, for he stands before his people as the em- 
bodiment of pure religion and the only guide to eternal Hfe ; he is their Bible, 
their conscience keeper, and their only means of approach to Almighty God. 
Hail, precious Bible, may thy holy light shine on till every form of error and 
superstition in this and other lands shall be dispelled ! 



PART SECOND. 

My dear friends, having overthrown the charges of the Rev. Mr. Smith, as 
contained in his sermon, we now proceed to insist upon the indictments brought 
against the Roman Catholict Church, in my sermon to the American Mechanics, 
of November 30th, 1879. "^'^^ following language was then employed : "The 
bloodshed of the French Revolution of 1789. was the rational outcome of cen- 
turies of religious intolerance. The Church was said to be the embodiment of 
Christianity, and Paris for ages knew no other faith than the Romanism of Italy 
and Spain — a foe to every form of liberty and that quenched the kindHng 
ambitions of self government and freedom * * * * No student of history is 
surprised at the excesses of that eventful period, for behind it lay the ghastly form 
of St. Bartholemew's Eve." 

The Rev. Mr. Smith, in his verbal sermon, denied the truth of this para- 
graph and brought forward historical data to sustain his position, but he has not 
favored us in his published sermon with his refutation. Why is this ? Did he 
not quote Protestant authorities on his side ? These, of course, would prove de- 
structive to my assertion, if they were well founded. I ask again why was this 
part of his sermon suppressed ? He cannot plead the undue length of that ser- 
mon and the need of excision to suit the space in the Democrat, for we find it 
absent from the sermon as published in his pamphlet, while a large amount of 
foreign matter is inserted. I leave an intelligent pubHc to discover the reason 
for themselves. The suppression was made for some such reason probably as 
the slander as to my parading a Monk and Rosary. Was my assertion untrue, or 
can it be sustained on invulnerable historic grounds ? Let us see. The Revo- 
lution referred to was one of the most sanguinary and loathsome that blots the 
records of humanity. It knew no bounds to its tiger thirst for blood ; the com- 
monest principles of right were violated ; the most natural duties and relations 
were discarded ; the amenities of life were ascribed to the weakness of a supersti- 
tious age and unworthy the respect of mankind ; men stalked along the streets of 
Paris maddened to an ungovernable frenzy, which brooked no denial, and which 
was remorseless in its revenge. Religion and morality were trampled down and 
out from society. Gladly would we draw the veil of oblivion over the whole 
scene, but we cannot, indeed, dare not. It has become the dangerous eddy- 
stone upon which civihzation has erected its Hghtbouse, to warn empires of the 
terrible dangers which beset the ship of state. My crime, in Mr. Smith's esti- 
mation, is imputing to his church any of the responsibility for such an event. 
Remember, I did not say Romanism carried the French Revolution through, but 
that it was the "rational outcome of centuries of intolerance by the Papal 



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Church." The children of the man whom he has trained to burglary may com- 
mit deeds worthy of the severest penalties, and while the common law holds the 
father clear of their commission, every right thinking man, and God himself, vnW 
fasten upon him the stigma of those crimes, so here I would say, while the Ro 
man CathoHc Church is not directly culpable for the French Revolution, yet she 
bears the same relation to it as that father does to his felonious children. Prot- 
estant England was sometimes threatened with like evils, but its pulpit was the 
fulcrum on which the whole efforts of the popular leaders rested and never rested 
in vain. In France the influence of religion was all exerted on the other side. — 
{Allison's Hist. Europe, vol. 7, 2^- <^1-) One of the greatest of French states- 
men, Sully, has said " The people never revolt from fickleness or the mere desire 
of change ; it is the impatience of suffering which alone has the effect.'' — {ibid.) 
" The people," says Robespierre, '■ will as soon revolt without oppression as the 
ocean will heave in billows without the wind." And we find that in every country 
that the insurrection of slaves is thc^ most terrible of all commotions, universally 
the strength of the re-action is proportioned to the oppression of the weight 
which is thrown off". — ibkl.) Some few years previous to the Revolution, philos 
ophical investigation arose and caricatured in numerous ways the church (Rome) 
which stood as the sole exponent of Christianity, all other forms of faith having 
been mercilessly banished. Most of the middle and lower classes were sunk in 
the most wretched ignorance ; superstition filled the mind ; poverty, the most 
abject, was almost universal among them. "Coarse meal, husks and boiled 
grass was the common food of the peasantry. — ( CaHyle, vol. /. ^:>, 165.) " Your 
best were," says Dr. Berkley, 1714, " is to come through France, "but make no 
stay there, for the air is cold and there are instances enough of poverty and dis- 
tress to spoil the mirth of anyone who feels the sufferings of his fellow creatures.'- 
The revenues of the church were 130,000,000 francs, the number of ecclesiastics 
was 80,000; but this revenue, large as it is, was inconsiderable compared to the 
extent of the territorial possessions of these ecclesiastics. The nobles and the 
clergy claimed two-thirds of the wholfe estate of the kingdom, and the other third 
was in the hands of the Tiers etat, upon which fell the greater proportions of the 
burdens of the state. — {Allison, j)- 52.) The annual expense of the government 
and the interest upon the debt were 659,000,090 francs or 182,000,000 with 
money worth then seven times its present value — purchasing capacity — so that 
in 1789, the very year of the Revolution, the taxes, borne almost entirely by 
the middle and lower classes was $1,274,000,000. Where then was the Roman 
Catholic Church, and what part did she play in the progress of events towards 
their awful calumniation a short time hence ? Voltaire was indeed a Roman 
Catholic at this period, but his squibs at the clergy poisoned the public mind. 
The chiefs of these ecclesiastics were of the most dissolute character. The Bishoj> 
of Ayen had an annuity of $8,500, according to our money value $59,500.00. 
An opera dancer, Madmoiselle Guimard, disposed of the patronage of the 
Diocese of Orleans, and received the clergy, who came to soHcit promotions, in 
a superb house furnished by the Bi.shop, her protector. — ( C/*:^?'//. (.'a/fses <>/' f/ie 
French Revolution, p. 35.) Dillon, Archbishop of JSiarboune, made his Abbey 
of Haute-Fontaine the resort of the most abandoned women. — (^^^V/, />. 36.) 
Cardinal Montmorency, the great Almoner of France, lived, publicly, with the 
Abbess of the Royal Abbey. Brentenill, Bishop of Montanban, made his countr\' 
house a seraglio. Champion de Circ, Archbishop of Bordeaux, allowed his mis- 
tresses to do the honors of his table. — ( ?7-> /(/,/>. HC.) Chancellor d'Aguesseau 
observed : "The Church must relax her vigor by some palliative, or if she thinks 
herself bound not to do so, she must cease to ask the King for his subjects to do 



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what is impossible, by commanding them to fulfil a religious duty which the 
Church does not allow them to perform. — [ibid, p. 53.) Turn we for a moment 
to the treatment of the Protestants on the eve of the Revolution. For a long 
time Protestant mothers had confided their children to CJatholic women to obtain 
church baptism for them, the Protestant clergy having been either banished or 
prohibited from performing that service, but the Priests inserted an item in their 
registers, which blasted the reputation of these Protestant mothers. — (ibid^p, o;3.) 
At the time of Louis XVI, the monarch, under whom the Revolution com- 
menced, the marriage of Protestants and the baptism of their children in any 
other mode than the Roman was not valid, and consequently their succession to 
property and their titles to civil rights were not acknowledged by the tribunals of 
France. This out-lawed 1,000,000 persons, of whom as many as could now, as 
in former times, took refuge in England and Holland, where they plied their in- 
dustries, which to-day are the foundation of England's commercial supremacy. 
By the surging waves of the French Revolution, the throne and the church, the 
mitre and the crown, were overwhelmed ; and though Roman Catholics will not 
admit it reach'ly, England opened wide her arms and gave richest hospitahty to 
the very men (Priests) who drove the poor Protestants from their homes or 
burned them at the stake. Here, and now, I hold the Roman Catholic Church 
dp to the approbrium of this age for her infamy, in driving the frenzied Pari- 
sians into the maelstrom of revolution. And let me add, that while we applaud 
the generosity of England in giving shelter to those persecuted ecclesiastics, she 
laid thereby the foundation of the Tractarian movement in her midst, which cul- 
minated in Oxford college, in 1830, under Pusey, Keble, &c. The viper struck 
its poisoned fangs into the bosom that gave it warmth and nourishment ! 

ROMANISM AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. 

From the statements of the Rev. Mr. Smith, in his claim for the " Act of 
Toleration " of Maryland, we are led to think that the Roman Catholic Church 
is the friend and promoter of the freedom of conscience which prevails to such an 
extent in our midst. Let us examine her pretensions. In collecting the facts 
under this head, I became so astounded at the butcheries, and the scientific, 
malignant precision with which many of the Papal wishes were effected, that I 
felt I could not present them fully to a pubHc mixed congregation without out- 
raging the sense of common decency; I therefore shall have to exhibit only par- 
tially the horrors which are too revolting to be seen in their entirety. 

The early Christian fathers adopted the mild methods of the gospel in prop- 
agating the truth for which we give them due honor. Oregen says : " Christians 
should not use the sword." According to Cyprian, " The King of Zion alone 
has authority to break the earthen vessels." Lactantius : "Coercion and injury 
are unnecessary, for religion cannot be forced." These men lived in the early 
centuries of the Christian church, when she was not dazed by temporal 
splendoi^s, but attended to her spiritual duties. Up to A. D. 800, the Roman 
laws agamst heretics were comparatively mild, but we must remember that only 
about that time did the Church of Rome receive from Pepin first, and again from 
Charlemange, his son, temporal dominion. She soon became absorbed with 
gathering to herself estates to which she had no legal rights and assuming impe- 
rial prerogatives. Then came a revival in letters, which maintained the right of 
investigation, in a measure. Rome awoke to the dangers arising from such a 
claim, and at first by concentrating upon it all the spiritual forces, endeavored to 
manacle the rising ambition of free inquiry. ■ Failing in this, the Church sub- 
orned the temporal authority to complete the work she had failed to accomplish. 
Urban. Alexander, Lucius and Innocent, gained an infamous notoriety in their 



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barbarous enactments against the Albigenses, Waldensians, and the Wickliffites. 
Pope Urban II decided in 1090, that the person, who, inflamed with zeal for 
Catholicism, should slay any excommunicated person was not guilty of murder. 
{Edgar ^ p. 248.) Lucius II pronounced red hot anathemas against the Wal- 
denses as well as against all who were in any sense their protectors or gave them 
shelter. Pope Innocent IV sanctioned the acts of King Frederick, which 
sentenced the partizans of error to be burned alive. The crusaders against the 
Albigenses received entire absolution from all their sins, supported by the mercy 
of God and the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, at the hands of the same Pope. 
The Provincial ecclesiastical councils of Oxford, Avignon, Tours, Lanaur, 
Montpelier, Narbonne, Albi and Tolosa, sanctioned persecution. In accordance 
with that of Oxford, Henry II of England ordered over thirty of the Waldensian 
reiugees, who had taken shelter in England from the monstrous cruelties in Gas- 
cony, to be publicly v/hipped, branded with a red hot iron on the cheek, driven, 
half naked, out of the city and prohibited all persons from offering them hospi- 
tality or shelter, though it was the depth of winter, in consequence of which the 
entire number perished of cold and hunger. The Roman Church swore the Barons 
to exterminate heretical pollution from their lands. In the matter of buying and 
selling, absolute prohibition was enjoined as against the heretics. The sanctity 
of the grave was to be violated and the bones of the heretics were to be disin- 
terred, burned, and the ashes sown to the wind, as was done with the remains of 
Wickliffe, by order of the Council of Constance, 141 4. 

The General or Eucumenical Councils, the great authorities in Pa])al matters, 
issued the same edicts. The Second Lateran, as its name indicates, was held in the 
Pontifical Palace, at Rome, 1139, ^^^ ^^ its twenty-third Canon, excommuni- 
cated and condemned the heretics of the day " who affected a show of piety." 
These the civil powers were coiamanded to suppress, vv^hile the protectors of the 
heretics were ex-communicated. The Third Council of the Lateran assembled 
in 1 1 79, and promulgated the sentence of the former Council against all heretics. 
In its twenty-seventh Canon, it states that " supported by the mercy of God and 
the authority of Peter and Paul we ex communicate, on Sundays and festivals, 
the Cathari of Gascony (Bible Christians), Albi of Tolosa." Their possessions 
were consigned to confiscation and themselves to slavery, while any who had 
made a treaty or contract with them were absolved from their engagements. 

Rev. Mr. Smith refers to the fourth general Council of the Lateran ; his 
language is as follows : "Finally, the twelfth Eucumenical Council (fourth of the 
Lateran) held in 12 15, by Pope Innocent III, when the Papacy was at the 
zenith of its glory, thus lays down the law of the Church : • We decree that as 
laics should not usurp the rights of ecclesiastics, so neither shall ecclesiastics 
presume to arrogate to themselves the rights of laics ; therefore, we forbid all 
ecclesiastics to extend their powers under cover of ecclesiastical authority * * * 
so that to Caesar may be rendered what is Csesar's, and to God what is God's.' " 
Here I charge my Reverened opponent with flagrant duphcity, in suppressing the 
facts in relation to this very Council ! We perceive asterisks showing that Mr. 
Smith has made omissions. Why omit ?. Were I a Roman Catholic, I would 
not refer to Pope Innocent III, or his Council, for a justification of my assertion. 
The Fourth Lateran v/as the twelfth Eucumenical Council. It was under the 
entire control of Innocent III. The following is part of the decree which Mr. 
Smith has garbled. The third chapter begins thus : ''- We excommunicate and 
anathemize every heresy extoUing itself against this holy, orthodox Catholic 
faith which we before expounded, condemning all heretics by what names soever 
called. And being condemned, let them be left to the secular powers or Bailiffs 



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to be punished by due animadversion. And let the secular jjowers be inorned 
and indwed^ and if nefxl be, condemned, by ecclesiastical censure, what offices 
soever they are in, that as they desire to be reputed and taken for believers, so 
they publicly take an oath for the defence of the faith; that they will study in 
good earnest to extenninate to their utmost power from, the lands subject to 
their jurisdiction all heretics denoted by the Church, so that every one that is 
henceforth taken into any power, either spiritual or temporal, shall be bound to 
confirm this chapter by his oath. But if the temporal Lord, required and warned 
by the Church, shall neglect to purge his territory of this heretical filth, let him by 
the MetropoHtan and Comprovincial Bishops be tied by the bond of excommu- 
nication, and if he scorn to satisfy within a year let that be signified to the Pope, 
that he may denounce him, and his v^assals are to be thenceforth absolved from 
their fidelity and may expose his country to be seized on by Catholics who, the 
heretics being excommunicated, may possess it without any contradiction and 
may keep it in the purity of faith, saving the right of the principal Lord, so be it 
he himself put no obstacle thereto nor impose any impediment, the same law 
notwithstanding being kept about them that have no principal Lord." ("Si 
dominus temporalis requisitus et monitus ab EccUsia terram suam purgare 
neglexerit ab haeretica foeditate, per Metropolitanos et caeteras Episcopos Vin 
culo excommunicationis innodetur ; et si satisfacere contempserit infra annum, 
significetur hoc Summo Pontifici, et extunc ipse vassalos ab ejus fideHtate de- 
nunciet absolutos, et terram exponet Catholicis occupandam qui earn, haeretic- 
is exterminatis, sine ulla contradictione possideant, salvo jure Domini principal- 
is, dummodo super hoc ipse nullum praestet obstaculum, eadem nihilominus 
lege servata, circa eos qui non habent Dominos principales.") 

I present this part in Latin to show to Mr. Smith and others the real 
intent of the original as quoted above.; — {Doiding. pp. 332, 333.) Such, my 
friends, is part of the decree which the Roman Catholic Priest has quoted 
from. I leave you to draw your own inference. By virtue of this decree this 
same Pope Innocent excommunicated King John of England, absolved his sub- 
jects from their oath of allegiance, and invited the King of France to take pos- 
session of England. By this decree this Pope commissioned Pandolphus (or 
Pandulph) to take the crown from John, appointed the penance for him to per- 
form, excommunicated the Barons for proceeding to wrench the Magna Charta 
from the grasp of their perfidious King and absolved this same John from the 
observance of that instrument when he had so solemnly ratified its provisions by 
the most sacred oaths. This Pope Innocent III organized an expedition against 
the brave Albigeneses and commissioned Rainer, Arnold, Guido, Osma, Castel- 
nau, Rudolf and Dominic, to preach to this trampled people and to work miracles, 
and when their preaching and their miracles failed, he proclaimed a crusade 
against them, conferring upon the hero of the cross, if he fell in battle, an imme- 
diate passport into heaven, without even touching purgatory. In obedience to 
this Pope an army of 500,000 men, led by Smion De Montfort, entered the valleys 
of the Albigenses, and when they captured the city of Beziers and the com- 
mander asked the Pope's legate, who encouraged the army, how they would rec- 
ognize the Catholics from the heretics. " Kill them all,'' said Arnold Amalric, 
the Legate, "the Lord will know his own." — {Hist, of Albigenses, Edgar^ p. 
257.) The blood of the victims drenched the altars where the poor people took 
refuge, and ran down the streets in torrents. Vellay says 60,000 were massa- 
cred in this war. The city of Lavaur was taken by the same army in 1 2 1 1 ; 
Aimeric, the brave leader of the defenders, was hanged on a gibbet, and his body 
thrown in a well and covered with stones. The citizens were mangled without 



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discrimination and in the most frightful manner. Vellay shudders while he re- 
counts these horrors. Langnedoc, a flourishing country, was laid waste, its plains 
became a desert, its cities were burned, and its homes swept away v/ith fire and 
sword. In this war 100,000 Albigenses fell in one day. Detachments of soldiers 
v/ere dispatched, and for three months destroyed vineyards, defiled females, so 
that the march of the holy warriors was marked by the flames of burning houses, 
the screams of violated women and the groans of dying men. This war lasted 
twenty years. But the poor Albigenses sold their lives dearly, as the bodies of 
300,000 of these Romish crusaders fattening the soil attests. — {IiJdgai\ p. '257.) 
It was this Pope Innocent III that transferred the province of Tholouse from 
its rightful owner to Smion De Montfort, because Raimond would not proceed 
against his unofl"ending subjects and inflict upon them loathsome cruelties, and 
compelled this same Count to do abject penance at the shrine of the insolent 
Monk Castelnau, whose imperious insolence impelled a Knight to smite him 
down. It was this Pope who wrote to one of his ecclesiastics : " We counsel 
you, with the apostle Paul, to employ guile with this count, for in this case it 
ought to be called prudence. We must attack, separately, those who are separated 
from unity ; leave for a time the court of Tholouse, employing toward him a 
wise dissimulation, that the other heretics may be the more easily defeated, and 
that afterwards we may crush him when he shall be left alone." — {Innocent ii 
Epis. lih. XI, ep. 232.) 

Under Pope Innocent the Third, Dominic founded the Inquisition which for 
more than three hundred years deluged the fairest European countries with the 
blood of their truest sons. The instruments of torture were the wheel the fire, 
the rack, starvation, hurling over high precipices, crucifixion and decapitation. 

The torture by the rack was as follows : Tlie accused was in defiance of all 
decency stripped naked, the arms, to which a small cord was fastened were turn- 
ed behind the victim's back ; the cord, by the action of a pulley, raised the suf- 
ferer oft' his feet and held hiiri suspended in the air. He was then several times 
let fall and raised with a jerk, which dislocated all the joints of his arms whilst the 
cord by which he was suspended entered the flesh and lacerated the tortured 
nerves. Sometimes heavy weights were attached to the feet, and a cord vva>5 
twisted around the arms and legs until it penetrated to the bone through the rup- 
tured and bleeding veins. — {Edgar P, 26 i.) 

An Auto da fe (an act of faith) was performed as follows :' After an embit- 
tered harangue by the priest in the public square of the city, the heretic, dressed 
in a long yellow coat, variegated with pictures of dogs, serpents, flames and devils 
was led to the place of execution and committed to the flames amid the joyful 
exclamations of the priests and the populace. 

The regular Crusades against the Waldensians^^mmenced in 1447, though 
persecutions on a less scale were rife for nearly tv/o hundred years before. In- 
nocent (!) VIII in this year issued a Bull for their complete extermination. An 
army under the Duke of Savoy sought to carry into execution the savage decree, 
but he was defeated by the noble band of Christian professors so that the duke 
was glad to conclude a peace with them. In 1560 a new crusade against them 
was undertaken, and many atrocities were committed. On the 17th of April, 
1663, an army of Piedmontese, French, German and Irish troops, under the 
Marquis of Pianessa, marched into the interdicted regions of tliese helpless but 
brave Waldensians and commenced their butcheries. Houses and churches were 
burned to the ground, infants were remorselessly torn from the breasts of their 
mothers, and hurled against the rocks, the sick were either burned alive or cut to 
pieces or thrown down precipices. Mothers and daughters were impaled on 



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pikes and carried as ensigns at the head of the advancing columns, or left to die 
upon poles at the road side. Others had their noses, fingers and toes amputated 
and then left to perish in the snow. Some were dragged by the hair on the 
ground at the tail of a mule. Numbers were cast into a burning furnace. — 
{Dr. Bdirdin Harmon^ p. 396.) 

Cromwell, the States of Holland, and the protestant cantons of Switzerland 
remonstrated ; and even then these atrocities were not abated until Old Iron- 
sides (Cromwell) threatened to batter down the gates of Rome with British can- 
non. It was this demoniacal slaughter that incited Milton to write the immortal 

sonnet: 

" Avenge O Lord ! thy slaughtered Saints whose bones 

Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains eold. 

Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old ; 
When ail our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, 

Forget not ; in thy book record their groans, 
Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold 

Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled 

Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans 

The vales redoubled to the hills and they 
To Heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes ran 

O'er all the Italian fields where still doth sway 

The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow 

A hundred-fold, who, having learned thy way 

Early may fly the Babylonian woe."' 

These poor people did not receive full religious and ecclesiastical liberty 
until 1848, the very year in which Pius IX had himself to Hee from Rome, on 
the uprising of the populace against him. — {Barnnni, p. 40i.) 

The Massacre of Orange (in 1562), at the instigation of Pope Pius IV, was 
attended with awful horrors. The Italian army, commanded by Serbellon, slew 
man, woman and child m indiscriminate carnage; children were snatched from 
their mothers and killed with blows from bludgeons ; they mutilated the citizens 
shamefully, the blood flowed in torrents through the streets, ladies of rank were 
abandoned to the ruflianly soldiery, and were left as spectacles for pubUc laughter 
by mutilations which 1 shudder to think of, and which I cannot even mention 
without breach of propriety. 

The last which I shall mention from the long catalogue is that of St. Bar- 
tholomew's Eve, which equalled the others in fiendishness, and exceeded them in 
the numbers slain. The facts are given in detail by Roman Catholics themselves 
whom we cannot doubt. Among them we find Bossuet, a great authority in the 
Roman Catholic Church. The plot was laid by the Queen Mother, Catherine 
De Medici, and was designed to utterly extirpate the Huguenots (Protestants) 
from France. The occasion was the marriage of the protestant King of Navarre 
to the daughter of the Queen Mother and sister of Charles IX. Special invi- 
tations were sent to the leading Protestants of the nation to participate in the 
royal festivities ; and for many days they were feasted in a superb manner. Old 
Admiral CoHgny, who had braved the perils of the sea and carried many a scar in 
the defence of his beloved France, was present. So was the Prince of Conde, 
and, indeed, almost all the leaders of the Reformed party. To the Duke of 
Guise was entrusted the execution of the plans, and well did he perform his duty. 
At midnight the bell tolled solemnly in the tower of Notre Dame, the signal for 
the butchery to commence. Old Coligny was found upon his knees in his cham- 
ber, and pomted his assassms to the white hairs which crowned his head ; but no 
mercy was shown the brave old man. Charles IX from his palace window cried: 
•* Kill I Kill .' " and even fired himself upon the dazed and defenceless Protest 



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ants. The carnage lasted seven days. Orders were despatched throughout the 
kingdom to destroy the Protestants. The destruction of life was frightful in the 
extreme in Meaux, Troyes, Orleans, Nevers, Lyons, Tolouse, Bordeaux and Re- 
uon. The Queen Mother unblushingly feasted her eyes on the spectacle of 
thousands of men " frightful in the pale livery of death ! " The King himself re- 
marked on viewing the body of CoHgny that " the smell of the dead was agree- 
able." According to Sully seventy thousand perished at that fatal period. The 
very rivers were rendered pestilential by the numbers of bodies cast into them. — 
{Edgafs Variations of Pop -ry^ p . 271.) How was this regarded at Rome? 
Did she, upon the Seven Hills, cover herself • with sackcloth on account of the 
brutalities of her most obedient children ? No ! No ! A Te Deum was sung 
by order of Pope Gregory XHI. A salute was fired from the castle of St. Ange- 
lo, the bells rang, bonfires blazed, a medal was struck and a painting was execut- 
ed by Vasari representing the massacre and bearing in Latin the inscription, 
*' The Pontiff approves the kiUing of Coligny," and placed in the Vatican where 
it is still to be seen. — {Barnimi's Ronutnism, p. 4O3.) Nowhere do we per- 
ceive with greater clearness the retributive providence of God than in the pun- 
ishment of the chief actors in this terrible drama. 

Says Rev. J. H. Wylie : Only seventeen years had elapsed since the St. Bar- 
tholomew massacre, and yet the authors of that terrible tragedy were all dead ; 
and all of them with one exception died by violence. Charles IX, smitten with a 
strange and fearful malady, expired in torments. The Duke of Guise was mas- 
sacred in the castle of Blois, the King kicking his dead body as he had done the 
corpse ofColigny. The Cardinal of Lorraine was assassinated in prison : and 
Henry IH met his death in his own tent at the hand of a monk. Catherine de 
Medici died at the castle of Blois twelve days after the murder of the Duke of 
Guise, as little cared for in her last hours as if she had been the poorest peasant 
in France : and when she breathed her last, " they took no more heed of her/' 
says Estoile, " than of a dead goat," She lived to wit-ness the failure of all her 
schemes, the punishment of all her partners in guilt, and to see her dynasty which 
she had labored to prop up by so many dark intrigues and bloody crimes, on the 
eve of extinction. And when, at last, she went to the grave, it was amid the ex- 
ecrations of all parties. " We are in a great strait about this bad woman,'' said 
a Romanist preacher when announcing her death to his congregation ; ''if any of 
you, by chance, wish out of charity to give her a pater or an ave, it may perhaps 
do her some good.'' — {The Christian, Feb.. 1880.) 

In Spain the Inquisition flourished and pHed its infernal machinery to the 
destruction of hundreds of thousands of lives. No less than fifty thousand per- 
sons suffered death in Bohemia at the relentless hand of Popery. During the five 
years in which Queen Mary reigned in England twoliundred and eigthy-eight per- 
ished for their rehgious opinions. John Rogers, a member of the Society of 
Friends, says : Millions, many millions, some declare fifty milHons, and others de 
clare that even seventy-five millions have gone to the grave through Papal perse- 
cutions. — {Barnmii, p 494-) 

You ask, and well, why have I entered into these soul-harrowing details ? 
Why not let obHvion hide them from our eyes ? My answer is, Rome herself 
will not let them die, hut is to-day the same perseeuting, harbarous and relent- 
less corporation, that site vms then. Has the authority of these councils been 
denied or their persecuting edicts cancelled ? Has Rome iii one single allocu- 
tion, syllabus or encycUcal letter denied the right of adopting such measures for 
the furtherance of her projects ? No ! But we claim, and I now pro])ose to 
shov,' that she is identical in spirit with what she was in the darkest hours, when 



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she waved defiance to the truth with a red hand and brandished the torch as with 
frenzied visage she hghted the fires around mart^T-heroes. A /id more than ilmt^ 
she glories hi her s/ointe! 

VVe are already in the shadows of the afternoon of the nineteenth century. Car- 
dinal Chiaramonte was crowned Pope by the conclave of Cardinals assembled in 
Venice March 21st, 1800, Rome at this time being in the hands of Napoleon I. 
He assumed the title of Pius VII. In 181 4 he restored the Jesuits to the posi- 
tion from which they had been deposed by a predecessor, Clement XIV, July 21. 
1 773, through the pressure even of the Roman CathoHc powers. Pius Vll 
writes to his Nuncio at Vienna : "Not only has the church succeeded to prevent 
heretics from possessing themselves of ecclesiastical property, but she has estab- 
lished the confiscation and the loss of goods as the punishment of those guilty of 
the crime of heresy. This punishment as it respects the goods of individuals, as 
decreed by a Bull of Innocent III, and in respect of principalities and fiefs it is a 
common law \chap. Ahsolutos X^V^C) that the subjects of an heretical prince are 
enfranchised from every duty towards him and dispensed from all fealty and honor. 
However slightly one may be versed in history he cannot but know that sen 
tences of deposition have been pronounced by Pontififs and by councils against 
princes guilty of heresy. Indeed we have fallen upon such calamitous times, 
times of such humiliation to the spouse of Jesus Christ (!) that it is not possible 
for her to practice nor expedient to invoke her most sacred maxims of just rigor 
against the enemies and rebels of the faith. But if she cannot exercise the right 
of deposmg heretics from their principalities and of declaring their goods for- 
feited, can she ever positively permit herself to be despoiled to add to them 
new princi|)les and new goods ? What occasion of deriding the church would 
not be given to the heretics and unbeHevers them-^ elves, who exulting over 
her grief would say that means at length had been found to'make her toler- 
antP — ( Papal Conspiracy Exposed, by Dr. E. J^eecher, p>' '^•) 

Dr. Kalley, a Scotch physician, removed to the island of Madeira, a Portu- 
guese possession, for the benefit of his wife's health, and while there opened his 
house for the instruction of any who would come, as the ignorance of the people 
was most appalling. In a letter dated May 4th, 1844, he says : Last Sabbath 
two persons were committed to jail because they did not kneel to the Host (con 
secrated wafer) as it passed. * * * On the second of May a girl brought me some 
leaves of the New Testament, teUing me with tears, that her own father had beat- 
en her with a stick and then burnt two of the leaves. On the same day Maria 
Joaquin, wife of Manuel Alvas, who had been in prison nearly a year, was con- 
demned to death. Part of the Judges decision was as follows : • It is proved 
that the accused Maria Joaquin * * * maintained that veneration should not be 
given to images, denying the real presence of Christ in the Sacred Host * * * * 
blaspheming against the soul of the Virgin. * * * I condemn the accused Ma- 
ria Joaquin to suffer death as declared in the said law, and the costs of the pro- 
cess which shi- shall pay with her goods. Funchal Oriental, in Public Court, 
2nd of May, i843.Joze Pereira Leito Pitta Ortegueira Negroo.' The author- 
ities, fearing the Protestant world, did not execute this sentence, but cast the 
woman into prison — a respectable woman, and a mother of seven children, with 
one of them upon her breast. - {Doicling^ p. 615.) 

In August 15th, 1832, Pope Gregory XVI. in his famous Encyclical letter, 
uses the following language : " From that polluted fountain of indifference flows 
that absurd and erroneous doctrine, or rather raving, in favor and in defence of 
liberty of conscience, which most pestilential error is everywhere attempting the 
overthrow of ci^^l and religious institutions, and which the unblushing impudence 



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of some has held to be an advantage of religion. * * * From hence arise these 
revolutions in the minds of men, hence this aggravated corruption of youth, 
hence this contempt among the people for sacred things, and of the most holy in- 
stitutions and laws, hence, in one v/ord, that pest of all others, most to be dread- 
ed in a State, unbridled liberty of opinion." Again, the same Pope, in the same 
document, says : " Hither tends that most and never sufficiently to be execrated 
and detested liherty of the pniss for the diffusion of all manner of writings which 
some so loudly contend for and so actively promote. No means must be here 
omitted as the extremity of the case calls for all our exertions to exterminate the 
fatal pest which spreads so many works, nor can the materials of error be other- 
wise destroyed than by the flam-es which consume the elements of evil." In 1844 
this same Pope Gregory in his Bull says : " Moreover, venerable brethren, we 
recommend the utmost watchfulness over the insidious measures and attempts of 
the Christian AUiance. It is highly necessary that the Bishops of these plaices 
(where Protestant service was held) should mutually assist each other zealously 
and faithfully in order, with the aid ot God. to discover and prevent their mach- 
inations." 

Pope Pius VII addresses the following communication to the Primate ot" 
Poland relative to the Bible Society, June 26th, 181 6 : " We have been truly 
shocked at this most crafty device (Bible Society) by which the very foundations 
of religion are undermined. * * * it becomes episcopal duty that you first of all 
expose the wickedness of this nefarious scheme. It is evident from experience 
that the Holy Scriptures, when circulated in the vulgar tongue, have through the 
temerity of men produced more harm than benefit. Warn the people entrusted 
to your care that they fall not into the pit prepared for their everlasting ruin."' — 
( Doioling, p.621.) 

In 1857 Manuel Matamoras, a Spaniard, was converted to God at Gibral- 
tar, and having obtained a copy of the New Testament, he went home to publish 
what God bad done for him. In Malaga, Seville, Granada, and Barcelona suc- 
cess attended his efforts. On October 7th, i860, he was arrested with forty or 
fifty others, for possessing and reading the Bible. Matamoras was taken before 
the Judiciary. "Do you profess the CathoHc, Apostolic, Roman religion?" 
Matamoras repned : " My rehgion is that of Jesus Christ. My rule of faith is 
the Word of God. The Cathohc, Apostolic, Roman Church I do not believe, 
and still less do I obey her in her practices.'' Attempts at fastening political in- 
trigues upon him having failed he was sentenced to eleven years hard labor in the 
galleys. Europe was aroused at the spectacle. The ambassadors of Prussia and 
even France were urged to remonstrate against the deed. The Evangelical Alli- 
ance sent a large delegation to urge his release. Thirty thousand French ladies 
begged the infamous Isabella, now retired with her courtezans to Paris, not to 
disgrace the nineteenth century. Eng and, Switzerland, Germany, and even Bel- 
gium sent in their protests. Matamoras' punishment was commuted to banish- 
ment from the nation ; but his health was broken down, and he died soon after 
at Lausanne, Switzerland. In Spain to-day F^rotestant pubUc worship is prohib- 
ited, under severe pena.lties. In 1835, ^^^^^' liundred families were banished from 
Austrian Tyrol because they refused to subscribe to the dictum of Rome. In 
Portugal, by a royal decree promulgated Dec. 10, i852, " Whoever offends the 
Roman C.athohc rehgion by holdintf other pnhlic wo rs/ii/.K or by any public word 
or act in opposition to it, must be imprisoned from one to three years." In Aus 
tria the Concordat which placed the empire under the complete domination of 
the Roman Hierarchy in many respects, was annulled July 26, i8()7. Pope Pius 
IX of blessed ( 1) memory issued his allocution June 2?, 1868, condemning "those 



abominable laws sanctitied by the Austrian (joverninent * * * which laws ire 
in flagrant contradiction with the doctrines oi" the Catholic religion. With our 
power and in virtue of this same authority, which appertains to us, we declare 
these decrees null and powerless in themselves and in their ettect both as regards 
the present and future." Look at Rome under the rule of the Pope. Mr. 
Hawkins of N'ew-York City spent a season in Rome some years ago. He says : 
" Mo Protestant church was allowed in the Paijal States, and even tlie foreiirn 
tninisters at the Papal couit m order to liave worship of their own respective 
faitiis were required to have their chapels either actually or constructively under 
their own roofs. For carrying on my person a pocket Bible I was warned that I 
ran the risk of twelve months" imprisonment, and on appeaHng to Mr. Cass, the 
then American Charge d' Affairs at Rome. I was informed that I had better put 
the Bible out of sight until I left the Papal States, as if I got into trouble on ac- 
count of it, he might not be able to help me. A husband and wife in another 
part of Italy were then serving a term of imprisonment in separate prisons for the 
crime of holding a prayer meeting in their own house. 1 now have a copy of the 
argument of the counsel (presented to me by himself) who defended them. — 
f'/u-isthtn AdnKuitr^ y. Y.,J'fn 1, 1880. 

Rev. Dr. Baird writes from Rome, Aug. 13, 1850 : •* A man who intends to 
write the truth about Roman affairs must hold himself rea.dy to be sent out of the 
country. * * * The Papal Government resorts to every possible manoeuvre to 
compel attendance upon Mass, and especially upon the few occasions of preach- 
ing. Every employe of the Crovernment is obliged to sign a promise of regular 
attendance at church, and every man who does not wish to embroil himself with 
the police, have his house searched and be arrested upon suspicions secretly 
lodged against him, must make some show of fideht/ to the established religion. 
Could you pass a month here in Rome where every family is mourning for some 
member in prison or exile and witness the terrors of Popery backed up by French 
tyranny, and see how the priests lord it over the land, your heart would bleed for 
the poor ItaHans, and you would find all language too feeble to express your de- 
destation of the baptized paganism which here crushes mens souls to the earth. — 

« \\-G view our America, which possesses for all of us the deepest interest. In 
South America and the West Indian Islands, as well as in .Mexico the R.oman 
power ha,s had undisputed sway for centuries. Spain, the home of Torquema- 
da and the Inquisition, first settled these lands. The barbarous treatment of the 
defenseless Aboriginal Indians is beyond language to properly describe. The 
Spanish Governors in the West Indies had the natives caged as wild beasts to 
grace their festivals with gladiatorial butcheries in the arena. Swordsmen prac- 
ticed their art upon this helpless people and exhibited their skill by dexterously 
shaving off the ear, the nose, and the arms of the victims of their 
ungovernable hatred. The Roman Catholic Church in South America was un- 
disturbed when the nations of Europe were throv/ing oft~ the shackles of Romish 
superstition, and for many years thereafter no movement towards freedom of con- 
science was perceptible in the land. ^V\vi slumber was at length disturbetl by 
the inflow of intelligent Englishmen who were crowded out at home, as well as 
by the enterprise of the indomirable Scotchman. The dry bones began to shake, 
and the shaking continues to this hour. Brazil has, even with a Roman Catholic 
emperor, been denounced because she would not banish the Free Masons whom 
Rome characterizes as •• beasts, sons of perdition, children of Hell 1 " 

The late Cardinal Antonelli, secretary of the late Pope Pius IX, sends for 
publication to the .Vicaraugua (rilz^'ttt the following letter of Jan. i, 1870: ''We 



have lately been informed here that an attempt has been made to change the or- 
der of things hitherto existing in your republic, by publishing a programme in 
which are enunciated freedom of education and of worship. Both these princi- 
ples are not only contrary to the laws of God and the church, but are in contra- 
diction with the concordat established between the Holy See and that republic. 
Although we doubt not that your most illustrious and revered lordship will do all 
in your power against maxims so destructive to the church and to society, still 
we deem it by no means superfluous to stimulate your well-known zeal to see 
that the clergy and above all the curates do their duty. G. (Cardinal Antonel- 

LI." 

What are the duties of the clergy and particularly of the curates ? To ascer- 
tain who within their parishes attend the holy sacrifice of the Mass, and the in- 
structions of their pastors, and who do not, that thus the Bishop, made acquaint- 
ed by him with these matters, may be be enabled to admonish each offender pri- 
vately, or should he deem it more conducive to their reformation, to rebuke and 
correct pubHcly. They are to "spy out " all who in any way seek to instil Prot- 
estant principles into the minds of the people so that punishment may be inflict- 
ed upon them. 

Mexico under Spanish rule was eminently a monastic State. Not only 
were three-fifths of the cities occupied with convents and churches, but there were 
convents which occupied a large part of the city (Mexico) and when in 1821 
she became independent of Spam, she had to bear up under the most revolu- 
tionary scheming of the priesthood. In Chili, South America, the agent of the 
American Bible Society in 1834-5 saw New Testaments without note or com- 
ment publicly and ceremoniously burned by a priest in the pubHc square of the 
city. Another Bible burning took place in ChiH in 1867. Bibles translated by 
the British and Foreign Bible Society were burned in Brazil a few years since, 
without mentioning the numerous instances of like character in Spain, France, 
Italy, Syria. — {>See J^drnum, p. 419.) 

But we are more directly concerned with the United States under whose be- 
nign government we have the happiness of Hving. Here Romanism has to walk 
softly, being in the great minority, but she is biding her time until she possesses 
the preponderance of voters, when Protestants will have to obey the dictum of tfie 
Triple Tyrant. But lest we may seem to be suspicious and ungenerous, let us 
consult Roman authorities. The Shepherd of th»' VaUet/^ a Roman Catholic 
paper published in St. Louis, says in an editorial April 10, 1852 : "The Catholic 
who says that the church is not intole^umt^ belles the sacred spouse of Christ. 
The Christian who professes to be tolerant himself is dishonest, ill-instructed, 
or both." " We say that the temporal punishment of heresy is a iriere qnestioh 
of expediency. Where we abstain from persecuting them (Protestants) they are 
well aware that it is merely because we cannot do so, or think that by doing so 
we should injure tlie cause that we wish to serve * * * If the Catholics should 
ever gain — which they surely will do — an immense numerical majority, religious 
freedom in this country is at an end. So say our enemies, so we believe. * * * 
Heresy and unbelief are crimes, that's the whole of the matter, and when the 
Catholic religion is an essential part of the laws of the land, they are punished as 
crimes.'' — {VanDyke\'i Popery, p. '•1^\.) 

The Catholic World of New York city, of April, 1870, says : "The church 
is constituted as every Catholic who understands his religion beheves, to guard 
and defend the rights of God on earth against any and every enemy at all times 
and in all places. She therefore does not and c<(unot accept or heiiere or in 



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(111*1 deqrp.p fanov llhertxi^in the Prof'fttanl nv?/.s7' o/* liberti/.^' — {Jhn'nKm^ />. 
642.) 

The Freeman'' s Jonrnal copies the following from the Rambler, an English 
Roman Catholic journal, with the fullest endorsement : '' Religious liberty in the 
sense of liberty possessed by every one to choose his own rehgion, is one of the 
most wicked delusions ever foisted upon this age by the father of deceit. The 
very word liberty, except in the sense of permission to do certain definite (or pre- 
scribed) acts, ought to be banished from the domain of religion. None but an 
atheist can uphold the principle of religious liberty * * * Shall I lead a man to 
think that religion is a matter of private opinion, and tempt him to forget that he 
has no more right to his religious views than he has to my purse, or my house, or 
my life blood ? No, Catholicism is the tnost intole/raiit of creeds. It is intol- 
erance itself. * * * We might as rationally maintain that a sane man has the 
right to say that two and two do not make four as to hold this theory of religious 
Hberty." Dr. Dens, whose work is standard in the Roman CathoHc church says: 
'• So far from granting toleration to Protestants, it is the duty of the Roman 
Catholic church to exterminate their religion." Thomas Aquinas, one of the 
great Fathers of the Romish church, says : " Heretics may not only be ex-com- 
municated but justly killed." — (Ed(/<n\ p. 24-7.) The anriotators of the Rhem- 
ish (Catholic) New Testament under the text in the Revelations which speaks of 
the "blood of the Saints," etc., say: "The Protestants foohshly expound this of 
Rome, but the blood of heretics is not called the blood of Saints, no more than 
the blood of thieves, man-killers and other malefactors, for the sht^dclmg of which 
hi^ order of justice }to comriionweidth shall aytswer.'" — Van Dyke, p. 296.) 

Hallam, the historian of the Middle Ages, says : "Those who know Rome, 
what Rome has once been, are best able to appreciate what she is. Those who 
have seen the thunderbolts in the hands of the Oregories and the fnnocents will 
hardly be intimidated at the sallies of decrepitude — the impotent darts of Priam 
and the crackUng fires of Troy." - {/Iallam}s Middle Ages, pp. 804-355.) Bi- 
ble burning has been indulged in to some extent among us. In November, 1842, 
Father Telmon, an Oblate Missionary from Canada, publicly burned in Cham- 
plain, N. Y., forty-two (Dr. Cole says one hundred) Bibles given to the Catholics 
by the agents of the Bible Society ; Bibles were burned in York, Pa., in 1852 and 
1854. In the first instance the resident priest discouraged the attempt, in the 
latter we find no exception taken by any priest. — {Barniun, p. 419.) An open 
air meeting was established in Tompkins-square, New-York city, by the Young 
Mens' Christian Association in 1868, and an order was procured by Romish in- 
fluences from the authorities which prohibited the meeting. Rev. William Ho- 
gan was a Roman Catholic priest and had a parish in Philadelphia ; but having 
changed to Protestantism he had pronounced upon him the following curse : 

" By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy 
Ghost, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, Mother and Patroness of our Saviour 
and of all celestial virtues, angels and arch-angels, thrones, dominions, pow 
ers, cherubim and seraphim ; and all the holy patriarchs, prophets, and all the 
Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents who in sight of the Holy Lamb 
are found worthy to sing the new song of the Holy Martyrs and Holy Confessors, 
and of all the Holy Virgins and all the Saints together with the holy elect of God 
— may he, WiUiam Hogan, be damned. We excommunicate and anathematize 
him, and from the threshold of the Holy Church of God Almighty we sequester 
him, that he may be tormented and deposed and be delivered over with Dathan 
and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord : ' Depart from us, we desire 
none of thy ways," and as fire is (juenched with water so let the lio'ht of him be 



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put out forevermore unless it should repent him and he make satisfaction. Amen. 
May the Father who created man, curse him. May the Son who suffered for us, 
curse him. May the Holy Ghost who was given to us in baptism curse him ! 
May the holy cross which has Christ for our salvation, triumphing over his ene- 
mies, curse him ! (I am compelled to omit part, as it is too blasphemous to be 
repeated.) ***** jvl^y he be cursed in all his joints and articulation of his 
members, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot ; may there be no 
soundness in him. May the Son of the Hving God with all the glory of his maj- 
esty curse him ! And may Heaven with all the powers which move therein, rise 
up against him, curse and damn him unless he repent and make satisfaction. 
Amen, so be it. Be it so. Amen ! " I have offered this as a specimen of the 
tender mercies of Rome for those who execute their rights of citizenship by leav- 
ing her communion. 

And now the Rev. Mr. Smith has extolled the harmony hitherto existing be- 
tween his people and his non-Catholic fellow-citizens. I have introduced discord. 
He is the peace maker, I am a commOD disturber. This was a specious bid for 
sympathy as against the Protestant minister, and perhaps some were deceived by 
it. But the true visage that looks out from the cowl is that of the wolf. Here again 
I charge the reverend gentleman with positive dupHcity. On Maunday Thursday, 
the day before Good Friday, the BuU inCwna Domini is pronounced by the 
Pope of Rome with all the solemnity of bell, book and candle light, and by other 
ecclesiastics in the important centres of Roman CathijHcism, and in this country 
too : 

" In the name of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and by the 
authority of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own, we ex com- 
municate and anathematize all Hussites, Wickliffites, Lutherans, ZwingHans, Cal- 
vinists. Huguenots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, and other apostates from the faith, 
and all other heretics by whatever name they are called or whatever sect they 
be. And also their adherents, receivers, favorers, and generally any defenders of 
them, with all who without our authority or that of the Apostolic See, knowingly 
read or retain, or in any way or from any cause, publicly and privately, or from 
any pretext defend their books, containing heresy or treating of religion, as also 
schismatics and those who withdraw themselves or recede obstinately from their 
obedience to us or the existing Roman Pontiff." — [Dowlhu/. p ^U7.) 

I have now shown Rome to be intolerant as a j-eligious corporation, thor- 
oughly exclusive in all matters pertaining to faith and morals, and for the further- 
ance of her pretensions has called into existence the most diabolical enginery 
of torture that the world has ever witnessed, and I claim to have shown from doc- 
uments that cannot truthfully be assailed or denied Jhat Rome is the same dog- 
matic, tyrannical, heartless and persecuting church that she was in the darkest 
age of her history and needs only the power to give effect to her anathemas and 
that she is confessedly only biding her time till events shall again confer upon her 
the authority so to proceed. I take no pleasure in presenting these revolting de- 
tails ; truth compels me to accept the duty this priest has impo'^ed upon me. 

ROMANISM THE FOE OF CIVIL LIBERTY. 

We now proceed to sustain the assertion that '• Rome is an ^Imperium in 
/m/>er^■o,' " which the Rev. Mr. Smith flatly contradicts. Hear him: "This 
sentence contains as many untruths as words. It is not true that the Catholic 
(Roman?) church is a government within a government in the sense of the Rev. 
minister. It is not true that she compels political obedience. She is a religious 
and not a politico -reUgio us organization. * * * I ask, have I ever m ani/ way 
interfered with your rights as voters and citizens ? Did I ever attempt to coerce 



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you in political matters ? Never. She (the church) is a spiritual society, Her 
object is to lead men to Heaven, etc." Now I am accused of telling 65 untruths 
(lies) in twelve lines by this gentleman. It at least looks very sweeping. If this 
is so, I am unworthy the confidence of any man in this city, and should be 
hounded quickly out of it. One untruth, one falsehood deliberatelv rendered 
and well proven ought to silence any minister of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. " .4.'? niouj/ niiirufhs ( is words." In 1875 there were amendments pro- 
posed to the constitution of this State, among which were two or three which pro- 
hibited largesses or endowments to sectarian institutions for sectarian purposes. 
Dr. Corrigan was then Bisliop of the Newark diocese. Rev. S. B. Smith was 
pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church, Rahway, N. J. That year there 
was a project to endow or support by taxation in this State an institution called 
the" Denvilie CathoHc Protectory" for the education of the vagrant youth of New 
Jersey according to the sectarian tenets of the church of Rome. Also there has 
been and there still is, and what we shall see further on, a determined claim to 
a division of the public school fund which is raised by taxation, as education 
is a State and so a poHtical duty and necessity. Bishop Corrigan sent to every 
priest in his diocese a pastoral letter in which he denounced these amendments 
in the boldest manner and commanded that that pastoral be read in every Rom- 
an Catholic church in his diocese. He also sent or caused to be sent printed 
ballots with the obnoxious amendments stricken out, and directed the Roman 
CathoHcs to vote that ticket. The Rev. S. B. Smith from his altar steps (memor- 
able spot , read Bishop Corrigan's pastoral, denounced the amendments aforesaid, 
and told his people to vote accordingly. This ballot was cast in I875 at the 
polling places in this city by the Roman Catholic citizens and by no other. Yet 
this same priest turns round in the same church and u])on the same spot, before 
a promiscuous audience '' which filled every part of the building," and boldly 
asks : " Have I ever hi itinj Acay biterfered (,') with your rights as voters and 
citizens ? Did I ever attempt to coerce you in political matters ? Never ! ! " 
My intelligent hearers, on which side lie the untruths ? I will not insult your in- 
telligence by even suggesting an answer. Notice another assertion by this priest: 
" Hence she (the church) also tells us in the exercise of the elective franchise or 
the right of voting t"o act conscientiously, n ot from any base motives. That is 
all. Is this wrong?" Surely this does not look wrong. But here we detect the 
deep cunning and the true sophistry of the Jesuit. This man knows that Prot- 
estant pulpits have again and again urged th e casting of a conscientious ballot ; 
and as this is so the priest asks in e^ect, ** Where is the sin? You Protestants 
do so, why not I do the same ? " This is plausible. When the pulpit of a Prot- 
estant minister advises the conscientious discharge of the franchise, what is meant? 
Simply this : " Obtain the Hght of God's Word and of God's Spirit, and seek to 
lay aside your prejudices as much as possible, remembering that you have a 
duty to discharge to God as well as to your political creed in the questions which 
are coming up for settlement and which either trench upon or favor the moral or 
religious bias of the country and of the age.'' And some man prays and votes a 
certain ticket, another prays and votes a different ticket. Each man may claim 
conscientiousness, and although we may find it hard to reconcile these parties we 
yet say : 'To God a man standethor ialleth.' One man is a Republican, an- 
other is a Democrat, and still another is a Greenbacker. Now, when Rev. Mr. 
Smith says "Vote according to your conscience," does he mean this or something 
else ? Hear the mouthpiece of the Roman CathoHc church in this country, the 
Cidh.olir. World, pubUshed as a first-class periodical in New-York city, andquot 
ed by us above: •* My right of conscience is the law for the State and prohibits 



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it from enacting anything that violates it. My eo?iscience is mi/ Churchy 
and any restriction upon her freedom or any act in violation of her rights 
violates or abridges my rights or freedom of conscience. The State is bound 
to respect, protect and defend the Catholic church in her faith, her constitution, 
her discipUne and her worship as if she were the only religious body in the na- 
tion." — ( Catholic World.) When Rev. Mr. Smith says to his flock " Vote ac- 
cording to your consciences," he says, " Vote for your church." A Roman Cath- 
olic has no conscience outside of his church, and she so insists. Every Protest- 
ant assembly in this country is divided in political sentiment. But there is only 
one party to which Romanists belong. I have in this church leading members 
and whom I love and deeply respect ; they have my confidence ; but they differ 
from me in politics as they have a right to. At the last election I consulted the 
leading man of the party opposed to my choice as to the moral standing of the 
candidates, as I did not know them. As a Christian gentleman he gave me his 
opinion for which I felt grateful, and yet not a single Roman Catholic whom I 
know or have known is a member of any but the Democrat party. Why, I ask ? 
Under the British crown in Great Britain, every Roman CathoHc is a Liberal 
which corresponds to Republicanism in America, but as soon as he places tlie 
Atlantic between himself and England he becomes a Conservative. God bless 
the grand old Democratic party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson and 
save it from foundering while she carries this Jonah which has proved disastri- 
ous to Gladstone's government in England ! ( I879.) 

We now come to the many allegations of Mr. Smith as in contradiction to 
the sermon to the Junior Mechanics. 

My opponent cites Pope Gelasius, 492-496, Gregory II. 715 731 and the 
Fourth Lateran council under innocent III, 1275, in refutation of my assertion 
— the poUtical character of Romanism. In a former part of this discourse I have 
shown conclusively, I think, wherein Mr. Smith is guilty of suppressing the facts 
of history. I have even given the Latin of part of the decree which he pretends 
to quote from, so that here we have to meet simply the statements respecting Ge- 
lasius and Gregory II, and here, too, we discover the distortions of facts as be- 
fore. 

For the first three centuries or more of the Christian era the church of Rome 
maintained an attitude of humiUty, and indeed of spirituality, which ought to crim- 
son the cheek of modern Romanism with shame. We account for this humihty 
by the fact that she lived on the sufferance of the Emperor of Rome who could 
at any time banish the Roman Bishop or deprive him of life, whicli, indeed, was 
done on some occasions. In A. D. 312 Constantine, the Roman emperor, was 
converted to Christianity, historians say, by seeing a flaming cross in the 
heavens while on a military expedition. He conciliated the Bishop of Rome by 
showing him many favors and especially permitting ecclesiastics to inherit the be- 
quests of the pious. A change soon came over the church, from poverty to op- 
ulence and almost regal splendors. So great were the bequests of pious women 
to the clergy that the Emperor Valentinian forbade the practice. Some of the 
Roman Bishops were truly pious, others were given to ostentation. Among the 
former was Gelasius whose pontificate lasted about four years. He acknowledg- 
ed the separation of church and State and rendered due obedience to the civil 
authorities. Here Mr. Smith is correct and I hasten to give him credit for it. 

Boniface III maybe styled the first Pope, A. D. 606. He claimed univer- 
sal spiritual supremacy and flung his hottest maledictions upon any who question- 
ed his right thereto, especially his opponent at Constantinople. Imperceptibly as 
the tide flows did this spiritual despotism advance its pretensions over the civil 



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powers. The Emperor Justinian (710) kissed the toe of Pope Constantine while 
the latter was on a visit to Constantinople. 

Gregory II in a letter to the Emperor Leo the Isaurian at first admits the 
separation of the civil and ecclesiastical forces. Here Mr. Smith leaves the case. 
Why not proceed, learned Sir ? This very Pope Gregory II on finding that Leo 
WBS not to be put off with smooth rhetoric published against him the Major ex 
communication, absolved the Emperor's subjects from paying taxes to him and 
incited an insurrection against his sovereign in Italy. 

Pope Zachary in 72 1 claimed the rightof deposing Childeric, King of France 
and gave his crown to Pepm. For this act of robbery Pepin afterwards confer- 
red upon Pope Stephen, the successor of Zachary, the ex archate of Ravenna, 
" with all the cities, castles and territories thereto belonging and to be forever 
held and possessed by the most holy Pope Stephen and his successors in the 
ApostoHc See." Charlemagne ratified the gift of his father Pepin, conferred ad- 
ditional territory upon the Pontiff, came to Rome at the request of the Pope and 
was re-crowned with the Papal oil and blessing. 

Not till we reach Gregory VII do we see the fulness of arrogance in the suc- 
cessors of Peter the fisherman. He came to pontifical honors through murder, 
perfidy and hypocrisy. He was a man of remarkable endowments, naturally, of 
great perseverance, and who to carry out his purposes would stoop to any crime. 
This Pope dethroned Henry IV, Emperor of Germany, and gave his crown to 
Rodolph whom he instigated to raise an army to obtain it. Henry's subjects 
were released from their oath of allegiance to him, and he vindicated his conduct 
to Herman by saying that he was warranted by many Scriptural proofs, and quot- 
ed the words of Jesus, " conferring the power of the keys." The Emperor was 
terrified into submission by the menacing attitude of two of his principal knights, 
crossed the snowy summits of the Alps in mid winter to seek absolution at the 
hands of Hildebrand — Gregory IV, who was then enjoying the hospitality of the 
Countess Matilda at her castle of Canossa near Reggio, 1077. The Emperor was 
admitted into the court-yard of the castle and was compelled to stand three days 
with bare head and feet, fasting and thinly clad, in penance while the Pope and 
his mistress quaffed their wine and lisped amatory sentences around the comfort- 
able fire of the palace. This was in January with snow upon the ground, and 
the Emperor had no shelter from the inclemency of the season. Well did Bis- 
mark say to Pius IX : " We shall not go again to Cauossay 

John XXII ex-communicated Louis King of France, because he had not 
been consecrated by the Papal authority. 

Henry II requested permission of Pope Adrian to conquer Ireland and he re- 
ceived full liberty to reduce that island to a British dependency, " murder its in- 
habitants and eradicate the tares of vice from the garden of God." Henry was 
to pay a certain price per capita for the people conquered. Hence we have to- 
day Peter's pence. Mageoghan, a Roman Catholic writer, says: '* Pope Adri- 
an's sentence violated the rights of nations and the most sacred laws of men ; un- 
der the specious pretext of religion and reformation Ireland was blotted from the 
map of nations and consigned to the loss of treedom without a tribunal and with- 
out a crime." — {Edgai\p. 223.) 

As we have already seen, Innocent III deposed King John, laid his kingdom 
under an interdict, released his barons from their oath of fealty, and invited Phil- 
lip of France to take possession of England. He insisted upon the dependency 
of John's crown upon Rome, and, indeed, received that crown by Pandolph, 
while the abject, coward King hid his craven face during the surrender. 

Henry VIII was ex-communicated by Pope Paul III because he rejected 



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•Papal supremacy and had divorce procured from Catherine of Arragon by Cran- 
mer while the Pope's legate had reached Lyons on the way to Henry with the 
same license. 

Pope Pius IV despoiled, or attempted to. Queen Elizabeth of all her domin- 
ions and when she died Pope Pius V followed her into the eternal world, usurp- 
ed the place of the Creator, and decided that "she had exchanged (in 1603) an 
impious life for eternal death." 

Now glance at the Eucumenical Councils. Mr. Smith will accept these al- 
so as infalhble. The fourth council of the Lateran (as seen) 12 15 in its third 
canon distinctly formulates the mode of ex-communication and deposition of re- 
fractory kings and the transfer of their dominions " to any adventurer who might 
invade their territories." The General Council of Lyons did depose Frederick, 
and proclaimed a holy crusade against him. So we might cite the other General 
Council at Lyons under Innocent IV : the General Council of Vienna in 13 11 
which distinctly states that the emperor is bound to the Pope from whom he re- 
ceived unction and coronation by an oath of fideHty, the General Council of 
Constance, of Basil, of the fifth Lateran, and finally the grand Council of Trent, 
whose deliverances are to-day held by Rome as of the Holy Ghost. We might 
also cite later depositions such as that of Napoleon I by Pope Pius VII, 1809, 
and last of all Victor Emmanuel ; but we forbear. Rome confesses her inability 
to proceed against r^ractory princes as she did at one time, but in her tearful 
eyes gleam the fiery vengeance of a Hildebrand and an Innocent. Rome can 
never do more than growl, we trust. She may show her teeth but bite she dare 
not while Protestantism leaves not her watch tower nor forgets her Bible ! 

Roman ecclesiastics cannot truly become citizens of any country in which 
the Papal church is not enthroned as supreme. They are without a country and 
without a home, owning allegiance only to the Pope of Rome. Peter Dens says, 
concerning the clergy, p. 26 ( Lippincott's ed. :) "Because a layman has no au- 
thority over the persons of the clergymen, Suarez and several canonists teach that 
the clergy are only indirectly obHged by the laws. But if the civil laws are ad- 
verse to the immunity of the clergy, they are not held either as to their perceptive 
or compulsory authority. The reason is in such respects, the clergy are by no 
means subject to the secular power ; thus a clergyman is not obliged to stand sen- 
tinel, perform military duty, etc." " Persons belonging to the religious orders 
are exempt and are declared so to be, because in some respects they are exempt 
from the jurisdiction of the Bishop, and are subject immediately to the (Pope) 
Apostolic See. * * That the church has the power of absolving fr«im vows and 
oaths is proved from the general concession of Christ, " Whatsoever thou shalt 
loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven ! '' — {IMcL-zj-) 

"Our first duty, however, is towards our most Holy Pope (as Pius IX) who 
at present so ably fills the chair of St. Peter." — Devs^ p. it.) '• Suppose it by 
said : 'I acknowledge the spiritual authority of the holy Father, but why am I 
an Englishman (or American) to come forward in a political way and use all me 
exertions to protect the temporal rights of a foreign prince ?' My answer at once 
is plain ' The Pope is not a foreign prince to any Christian or to any human be- 
ing. The Bishop of Rome is not a foreigner. He belongs to us as we belong 
to him. Rome is not a foreign city. It does not belong to Italy ; it belongs to 
all Christians and the Pope residing in Rome is not an alien from any of his 
Catholic flock. '' — ( JPree77ian's Journal, April 5 . 1 8 7 5. ) 

" Each individual must receive the faith and law from the church of which he 
is a member by baptism with unquestioned submission and obedience of the in- 
tellect and will." — (T/Hmipson's Papacy, p. 143.) 



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'• The spiritual power must rule the temporal by all means and expedients 
when necessary." — ( Bell"rrnhiP.) 

" We are Catholics first and citizens after," says Archbishop Gibbons of Bal- 
timore. " Rome has spoken. For true Cathohcs there cannot be two modes of 
receiving its decisions. They do not kneel at first to buffet afterwards. They 
hear and obey." — {Mottde.) 

Says the late Pope Pius IX, "The ecclesiastical power is right, divine, dis- 
tinct and independent of the civil power." — {DowUitg^p. 822.) 

The oath of allegiance to this country has the following clause in it : 
" I will support the constitution of the United States and I do absolutely renounce 
all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate State or sovereignty 
whatever.'" The clergy of the Romon CathoHc church take the following oath : 
" I receive and profess all that the sacred canons and General Councils have 
delivered, defined and declared, and^I shall endea.vor to the extent of my power 
to cause the same to be held, taught and preached. This I promise now and 
swear, so help me God and these Holy Gospels." — 75V/^<7r, p. 233.) 

Now this oath binds the priests to carry out all the decrees that have been 
named and which clearly asserts the supremacy of the Pope in temporal as well 
as in spiritual matters, the subjection of the State to his exactions and feaHty to 
all his claims. How, then, can this oath be compatible with that true loyalty 
which we owe to the country in which we live ? 

The Bishops of the Roman CathoHc church are sworn a*%lbIlows : " I, N., 
elect of the church of N., from henceforward will be faithful and obedient to 
St. Peter the Apostle and to the holy Roman church and to our Lord, the Tord 
N. Pope N., and his successors canonically entering. I will help them to defend 
and keep the Roman Papacy and the royalties of St. Peter, saving my order 
against all men. The rights, honors, privileges, and autlprity of the holy Roman 
church of our Lord the Pope and his aforesard successors I will endeavor to pre- 
serve, defend, increase and advance. I will not be in any' counsel, action, or 
treaty in which shall be plotted against our said Lord and the Roman church. 
And if I shall know any such thing to be treated by any whatsoever I will hinder 
it to my utmost and as soon as I can will signify it to our said Lord or to some 
other by whom it may come to his knowledge. The rules of the holy Fathers, 
the Apostolic decrees, ordinances, or disposals, reservations, provisions, and 
mandates, I will observe with all my might, and cause to be observed. Heretics 
(Protestants), schismatics, and rebels to our Lord or his aforesaid successors, I 
will to my utmost persecute and oppose. The possessions belonging to my table 
I will neither sell nor give away, nor mortgage nor grant anew in fee, nor in any 
wise alienate, not even with the consent of the chapter of my church, without 
consulting the Roman Pontiff. So help rne God and these holy Gospels." — 
{B<itil" of the Giants, p. 324) 

I now ask your attention to the oath of the Jesuits in whose praise Mr. Smith 
is so loud, and who are truly the progressive and ruhng element in the Romish 
church to-day, who have crowded into these United States from Europe and 
Mexico, whence they have been banished and into vvhose hands is committed the 
entire training of the priesthood in this country and who I doubt not claim Rev. 
S. B. Smith as a member of their order. Ameriran citizens^ hear the oath of 
these men : '* I, A. B., now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Vir- 
gin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. John the Baptist, 
the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, and the Saints and sacred hosts of heav- 
en, and to you my Ghostly Father do declare from my heart without mental res- 
ervation that Pope Leo XHI, is Christ's Vicar-General and is the true and only 



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head of the universal church throughout the earth, and by virtue of the keys of 
binding and loosing, given to His Holiness by Jesus Christ. He hath power to 
depose heretical (Protestant) kings, princes, IStates, coramonwenlths, and govern- 
ments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation and that they may be 
safely dsstroyed. I do renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heret- 
ical prince or State named Protestant, or obedience to. any of their inferior mag- 
istrates or officers. I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, 
of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and other Protestants, to be damnable and those to 
be damned w^ho will not forsake the same. I do further declare that I will help, 
assist, and advise all or any of His Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall 
be, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestants' doctrine and destroy 
cdl their pretended power, lega.l or otherwise. I do promise and declare to keep 
secret and private all her (Roman Catholic church's) agents' counsels as they are 
entrusted to me and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or cir- 
cumstance whatsoever, but to execute all which is proposed, given in charge or 
discovered unto me by you, my Ghostly Father, or by any one of this convent. 
All which I do swear by the Blessed Trinity and do call all the heavenly and glo- 
rious host of Heaven to witness my real intentions to keep this my oath." — {Dow- 
ling, p. 605.) 

Now observe : - 

1. The Pope^aims authority and jurisdiction over the secular power as welj[ 
as over the spiritual 

2. The councils above mentioned have ratified and confirmed these claims 
in all the fullness of its extent. 

3. These priests. Bishops and Jesuits swear in the most solemn manner to 
sustain these claims of the Popes, to increase and advance them, to brook no re- 
straint, legal or otherwise, in their effort, and that no Protestant nation, prince, 
or government has a right to their allegiance in preference to the Pope of Rome, 
and that they will destroy to their utmost abihty the power of the Protestant na- 
tion where they reside, and further that the people — the citizens — are taught that 
their highest allegiance is to the Pope, and that the claim of any State upon them 
is only secondary to his. Yet in the presence of all these oaths this same Mr. 
Smith says Rome is not a government within a government, she is only a spirit- 
ual force and claims no other. Will Mr. Smith again deny that his church claims 
direction of the civil powers and that she does not interfere with the political faith 
of her adherents ? Cardinal Manning of London says : " The State is not com- 
petent to determine of its own authority its proper range and sphere ; these are 
shaped out for it by the action of the church. The Church lays down the lines 
and limits of its own domain and claims the submission of the civil 2^ower to its 
judgment'") — (Christian Advocate^ N. Y., Oct. I'j, I878. ) In Ireland the 
priests bring their people by the collars of their coats to the polling-places, and 
compel them to vote as they dictate, and if any man refuses, and openly resists 
the priest, "leaves his curse at his door." On this point I addressed a letter of 
enquiry to Mr. John Dougall, proprietor of the New- York Witness, and founder 
of the Montreal Witness, and until lately a life-long resident of Lower Canada, 
where Romanism is estabHshed by law. The following is his reply: 

Office of Weekly Witness, 7 Frankfort-st., 
Rev. D. Halleron, Rahway, N. J. New-York. Feb . i4, 1880. 

Dear Sir : — 

I. The interference of priests with elections has been so open, flagrant and 
illegal that one or more of them have been prosecuted and punished by Roman 
Catholic Judges. They threatened exclusion from the sacraments and social and 



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business ostracism against their parishioners who should vote for the Liberal can- 
didates. 

2. The priests in return for the votes of their flock get all manner of chart- 
ers to hold property from the provincial Legislature and exemptions from boards 
of Aldermen for taxes and water rates on their vast institutions. 

3. The church does not allow its people to mix with Protestants or unbeliev- 
ers in any society or social amusements. If even a concert is given a priest at- 
tends to watch that the Roman Catholic musicians have no familiar intercourse 
with the others. I am, dear Sir, Yours very truly, John Dougall. 

I also addressed the same enquiries to Rev. WilHam Butler, D.D., who found- 
ed the missions of the Methodist Episcopal church in Mexico in 1873, ^^^ ^^^s a 
resident of that country from that time until last year (1879.) The following are 
his answers : 

INFLUENCE OF ROMANISM UPON THE MORALS OF THE PEOPLE. 

Baltimore, Md., Jan. 22, 1880. 
Rev. D. Halleron, Rahway, N. J. 

Dear Brother : 

The influence of Romanism on the morals of the people of Mexico is terri- 
bly exemplified by the political corruption and disquietude, for which the church 
of Rome is mainly responsible, and which has given that wretched country that 
she so long misruled, fifty-seven changes of government in fiftj^eight years, as also 
by the fact i'to mention no other) that a large portion of the people were living 
outside the bonds of lawful marriage until lately when the ''civil marriage law" 
was passed to wipe away the reproach which the exorbitant fees of the clergy for 
the celebration of marriage had created. 

Question IL — Certainly, it ''demanded supremacy in the government," and 
is responsible for all the disturbance that has occurred ; and when the Liberals 
were becoming too strong for the Hierarchy of Rome they invited a foreigner, 
Maximillian, of Austria, to invade the country at the head of a French army, to 
put down the Liberals and abolish Republicanism and restore the power of the 
Romish church. 

Question IIL - (What do enlightened Mexicans think of Rome?) "En- 
lightened Mexicans'' have fought the "intervention" above, executed Maximillian, 
disestablished the Catholic church, and sold her property to pay the debts which 
she forced upon the nation in her frantic efforts against the civil and religious 
freedom which the people demanded. 

They have also abolished every monastery and nunnery, and turned out of 
Mexico the orders ot the Romish church and expelled her Jesuits, so that Mex- 
ico, (formerly so full of them) is now without a monk or a nun, a sister of char- 
ity or a Jesuit ! The people of Mexico have done this, not because they are op- 
posed to religion, but because they believe that the confraternities of the Romish 
church are not exclusively religious, but have a political aim and purpose which 
is paramount and the object of which is to subjugate the social and religious Hfe 
of a people to the despotic rule of the Pope and Hierarchy of Rome. The men 
of Mexico are deterniined that these enemies of freedom shall never again gain 
a foothold in their country. Hence they passed, and will sustain on their statute 
book, what they designate " 7'he laii\f<>r the expt(lsi()n of pt^rHiciousfon'iijriers" 
under which these orders were condemned and expelled. Yours tiuly, etc., 

Wm. Butler. 

The Roman CathoHc church has ever aimed at the control of the political 
issues of every nation in which she has obtained a foothold and to make the 
temporal authority subservient to the furtherance of her intolerant faith ; as wit- 



. ness Italy, Spain, France, South Germany, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, South 
America, Central America, Lower Canada, Mexico, Portugal, ICngland and Scot- 
land before the Reformation. History furnishes do exception to this charge. 
Her influence wherever she has held sway has been fatal to all national progress, 
and specially destructive of national enterprise. Home has been the dry rot in 
every government in ichichshe has been allowed to participate. Spain, from 
being the first maritime power in the world has degenerated to driveling inanity. 
Portugal, earnest and ambitious, is prostrate from lack of the blood Rome has 
drawn from her arteries. France was only great when governed by the First Na- 
poleon — there has been but one Napoleon, truly— who battered down, the walls 
of the Inquisition and drove His Holiness into exile. Poland, the home of the 
brave John Sobieski, whose dying wail still lingers among the ruins of his dismem- 
bered kingdom, and which now and then a patriot hears and weeps over, is wiped 
from the escutcheon of empires. Italy dates her resurrection to Cavour's meas- 
ures and Victor Immanuel s brave deeds, and the wresting of the classic home of 
the Caesars from the hands of Papal tyranny. Austria has again risen into some 
prominence, but under a Protestant leader, Count Von Beust. England, the 
beaten footpath of hungry ecclesiastics, became disenthralled through the mar- 
tyrs' devotion, who walked up courageously to Smithfield fires, to an open Bible 
which Rome chains or burns. Scotland, the land of Bruce and Wallace, where 
eighteen thousand Holy Martyrs sleep in the Greyfriars churchyard in Edinburgh, 
arose under Knox and gave a King to England who in turn gave an open Bible 
to the world ! 

Time would fail me to tell of all ; we must pass on. Am I indulging in un- 
just accusations? Let those men speak who have all their hves lived under the 
church of Rome, but who are now the advance pickets along the march of free- 
dom in their own lands. 

Gambetta, the progressivest of France, says : " In France the clergy alone 
has the ears of the masses. In every commune in France the bell calls each cit- 
izen to the church, where he must Usten to tirades against the government that is 
supporting it.'' — {Christian Advocate^ Oct. 24, 1878.) 

In the Cortes in 1878, Castellar, the famous Spanish statesman, dehvered 
himself thus : " There is not a single progressive principle which has not been 
cursed by the Catholic church. This is true of England and Germany as \vellas 
of Catholic countries. The church cursed the Belgian constitution and the Ital 
ian independence ; nevertheless all these principles have enrolled themselves in 
spite of it. Not a constitution has been born, not a single progress been made, 
not a sohtary reform effected, which has not been under the terrible anathemas of 
that church." — {Barman, p. 605.) _ 

Mr. Smith instances the repubHcs of Genoa, Venice, Switzerland, etc., as 
having been fostered by Rome. Does he know, or does he not, that these very 
republics were crushed down and out by the merciless tread of troops upon whose 
bosoms gleamed the white cross of the Crusaders and who always went to their 
butcheries under Papal benedictions ? The silence of death that prevails in these 
lovely lands is eloquent in condemnation of the perfidy of Popes as well as of their 
rapacity. Switzerland lives, but lives as the remnant of what she might have 
been but for Rome's crusades against her. Well for her (Switzerland) that the 
mountains have been her habitations, for as these hft up immaculate heads m de- 
fiance of summer's heat, so have they stretched out non arms to give the bleeding 
patriots shelter from the scorching fires of Papal indignation ! 

ROME ALLIED WITH CORRUPT PARTIES. 

In my sermon of Nov. 3o, i879, the following language was employed : ''We 



claim that Rome is unchanged ; she has alHed herself to corrupt parties." Part 
of this Mr. Smith calls in question in his reply. He does not question " Rome's 
being unchanged." He knows better; but he asks "Will he (Methodist minis 
ter) please inform us what those corrupt parties are ?" Certainly, I shall. My 
office is to enlighten ignorance whether it arises from a defective early training or 
is self-imposed, or is assumed for eftect. I now proceed to give the desired in- 
formation. 

1. The Roman CathoHc church in many of her forms is nothing more than 
baptized pi((/anlsin, Mr. Smith himsi.4f being judge. In his pamphlet he uses 
the following language: " Can it be possible that this Christian minister stigma- 
tizes as infatuation what (conventual communities) was venerated by even the pagan 
world of old ? By the Greeks in the priestesses of Ceres, by the Romans in their 
vestals, by the Gauls in their druidesses, by the Germans in their prophetesses ?" 
Yes, Sir, I have heard of these orders of paganism, but we find them exclusive- 
ly confined, as celcbates, to paganism. We do not find any such order under any 
Biblical pre-Christian covenant, Abrahamic or Mosaic. Marriage was as hon- 
orable in all these as it is now according to God's word. I had no thought of ex- 
posing the Roman superstitution ; Mr. Smidi has done it for me, of course I ac- 
cept it fie knows <in,d I know it is the truth. I beg to refresh Mr. Smith's 
memory a little. These celebate communities referred to — Greek priestesses, 
Roman vestals. Galic druidesses and German prophetesses — were at times given 
to the wildest excesses. Their annual feasts were frequently disgraced by de 
baucheries which brought a blush to pagan morafists, moralists who had never 
read the law of Moses or the subfime deliverances of the Sermon on the Mount ; 
but at times they manifested an exalted bearing and by the divergence of their 
practices only revealed the weakness of their nature when overcome by supersti- 
tition. Many of their doings are locked in the silence of the dead languages 
where we hope, for humanity's sake, they will stay. Nor can we say that the 
diaholisni of Uie original is absent from its ante type. 

2. Romanism has supported its lordly assumptions by forgeries and has pro- 
nounced blessings at times upon the commission of revolting crimes. Let us be 
specific in our indictments. Towards the close of the eighth century a document 
was discovered which purported to be the collection of decretals by Isidore, a 
Spanish Bishop, who Hved three hundred years before the discovery was made. 
It was a right royal discovery for Rome, for by it she was able to assert her title 
to temporal power. Here is the gift of the Emperor Constantine whose conver- 
sion occurred 312) to the Pope of Rome : " We attribute to the chair of St. Peter 
all the imperial dignity, glory and power. * * * We give as a free gift to the holy 
Pontiff" the city of Rome and all the Western cities of the other countries." Pope 
Nicholas I used this forged instrument first against the French prelacy, and John 
Huss was burned at the stake for denying its authenticity. Indeed, up to the 
time of the Reformation, its genuineness was not questioned, the Popes at all 
times appeaUng to it with the utmost complacency and authority. N'ow its for- 
gery has been admitted by the following Roman (jatholic historians : Bellarmine, 
Baronius, Erasmus, Petavius, Thomasin, Pagius, Perron, Fleury, Marca. Du 
Pin calls it a medley; Labbeus says ''It is a deformity which can be disguised by 
no art or coloring "' Hallam says : "No one has pretended to deny for the last 
two centuries that the imposture is too palpable for any but the most ignorant 
ages to credit.'' — {Middle Ages, p. 274.) 

" The forgeries of the Papacy were not confined to territorial donations. 
Books pretending to express the prophetic inspirations of the pagan sibyls were 
also fabricated. Even Eusebius, one of the greatest among the early Christian 



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Fathers, did not disdain to commend the pious fraud, and in a discourse still ex- 
tant dwelt with complacency on the insertion of specious predictions in sibylline 
verses when they suited the requirements of the church." ( Westminster lieview^ 
Jan,, 1 879, p. 23.) 

The Popes' claim to primacy and infallibiHty is founded on a forged canon, 
the twenty ninth of the Eucumenical Council of Nicse, which was the first of that 
order, A. D. 825. In it the Pope is called " Christ's Vicegerent in the govern- 
ment of the church, and the head of the patriarchs as well as Peter was.'' That 
this is a forgery there is now no rational doubt. — {^ee Thompson s Papacy^ p. 
290, et seq. ) 

. To-day we have the same charge to bring against the Roman Catholic church. 
" Examine the traces of Jesuit editorship in Appieton's Cyclopaedia. Look at 
the whitewash sprinkled sometimes thickly over many of the articles in that Na- 
tional work referring to Romanism, I know for what I make myself responsible, 
but of late I can say from personal knowledge that more than one article in it has 
been badly manipulated. When specialists hke Prof. Hitchcock, of New-York, 
and like some whom I see honoring us with their presence to-day, look into these 
articles they see history falsified, and they find Bismark justified in his horror 
when he said, that the saddest sight he saw in France was the manipulation of the 
historical text books by Romish ecclesiastics." — ( Cook's lectures, series 1879-80. ) 

Phocas, a Centurion, assassinated the family of the Byzantine Mauritius, A. 
D. 602, in the most brutal manner. Five of the sons were killed in the presence 
of their father, Phocas reserving the old man for the last. The Empress Constantina 
and the princesses were the next objects of his cruelty. These, having taken ref- 
uge in a church, and promised safety by the most solemn oath, fell the helpless 
victims of this man's relentless cruelty. Phocas was the slave of drunkenness and 
licentiousness, yet this regicidal brute was hailed by the Pope as "the joy of heav- 
en and earth,'' (Du Pin, p. 279) and in turn Phocas conferred upon Gregory the 
title of" Universal Bishop." 

Henry IV, of Germany, before referred to, at the close of his eventful life, 
found his son incited by Pope Paschal II to take up arms against his father. In 
vain did the old man use every means to dissuade this son from so impious an 
act. Young Henry, however, afraid of the military genius of his father feigned 
submission and received parental clemency, but the ungrateful son on the first 
opportunity entrapped his father, and cast him into prison, where the Pope's 
emissaries stripped him of his regalia. Henry died of starvation and neglect, 
and his son, to gratify Papal vengeance, dug up the mouldering bones of his father 
from the cathedral grounds of Spire and cast them into a cave, — {See Russell's 
Modern Europe^ part 7, letter 22.) _^ 

Need we refer to the Inquisition for specimens of Rome's cruelties and cor- 
ruptions? That society slew during the life of one man, Torquemada, in Spain, 
one hundred thousand persons; two hundred thousand in 1641 in Ireland; seven- 
ty thousand on St, Bartholomew's evp in France, and one hundred thousand under 
the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands. These are but a few specimens culled 
from many. No wonder that the verdict of the intelligent student of history 
should be " Cruel are the mercies of Rome." 

The Pope icears a. robber s cap. In his tiara is the Iron Crown of Lom- 
bardy which was presented to him by a robber s hand, who despoiled the ducal 
government and wrested from its rightful heir the Iron Crown and the ducal 
States and presented them to the Pope, who, having lost the one by the retribu- 
tive providence of God, holds the other with which to grace His brow ! 

3. Our next indictment against the Roman Catholic church is that she is to- 



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day more than at any former period under the domination and leadership of the 
Jesuits. 

This order of Romish propagandists was founded by Ignatius Loyola, a 
Spanish soldier of fortune, who, during his incarceration in a French dungeon 
conceived the idea of counteracting the rapid spread of the Reformation by 
forming a society that should ignore self to the last degree in furthering the inter- 
ests of Rome. For a time this society confined itself to laudable duties. They 
adopted the principle of passive obedience to their superiors, "as a corpse in the 
hands of a surgeon." — {De S'lnctls.) 

"They became the implacable and unscrupulous enemies of Protestant gov- 
ernments." — {IlalJitras Constitutional Histortj of J^n gland.) 

These Jesuits fomented poUtical disturbance wherever they penetrated, plan- 
ned the assassination of Henrv III, of France, and William Prince, of Orange. 
They were the authors of the Gunpowder Plot under James T, of England. Gar- 
net was punished as an actor in this fiendish movement, but received beatification 
from the Pope for promoting this scheme. The Jesuits used every means to 
murder Queen Elizabeth, but were foiled in every attempt. Pascal gives from 
Sanchez, a Jesuit Father, a few choice specimens of their moraHty : "It is law- 
ful to use ambiguous terms to give the impression a different sense from which 
you yourself understand." " A person may take an oath that he has not done 
such a thing, though in fact he has, saying to himself it was not done on a certain 
specified day, or before he was born/' ''This claim is extremely convenient.' 
' " Promises are not obligatory when a man has no intention of being bound to ful- 
fil them." Bourne from Sanchez says : " An oath obliges not beyond the in- 
tention. of him who takes it." Again, to the question, " Is a witness bound to 
declare the truth before a legitimate judge ?"" " No, if his deposition will injure 
himself or his family, or if he be a priest, for a priest cannot be forced to testify 
before a .«ecuiar judge." — {Bee<^heyH Papai-y, pp. 1 10-112.) 

The Jesuits were banished from France in 1594 and in 1764; in 1759 from 
Portugal: 1767 from Spain ; l7<)8 from the kingdom of Sicily and the Duchy of 
Parma; in 1709 from Brazil. These, though Roman Catholic countries, wexQ 
coiTipelled to take this step in order to preserve their very existence. The Par- 
liament of France in ordering their expulsion from its territory, said : " The 
consequences of their (Jesuits') doctrines destroy the law of nature, break the 
bonds of civil society, authorize lying, theft, perjury, the utmost uncleanness, mur- 
der and all sins." — {Van Dykes Poptry.p. 279.) 

Pope Ganganelli — Clement XIV — in a Bull issued July 21, 1773. abolished 
the order of the Jesuits. He says that he " Searched the records of the Prop- 
a>!;anda, spending four years in the task, desirous of being correct in the matter of 
his condemnation."' He then communicated his brief privately to >everal Cardi- 
nals and sovereigns before promulgating it. He says : " The suppression is ac- 
complished. I do not repent of it, having only resolved on it after examining and 
weighing everything, and because I thought it necessary for the church. But this 
suppression will be my death." The initial letters of a pasquinade soon appeared 
on St. Peter's church, which, interpreted, reads: " IVie Holy See will he vacmt 
in. Stptemhery On the 27th of that month, 1774, the Pope died, attended with 
every symptom of poisoning. — {DowHng.,p. 604.) The Jesuits were restored to 
their orginal standing by Pope Pius VII, 18i4, and it is a well known fact that 
their General, Father Beckx, who resides in Rome, is the ruling power in the Ro- 
man Catholic church, and is called the Black Pope. The Jesuits were banished 
from Germany in 187 1, and they have flocked in large numbers to this country. 



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where they are now working in every conceivable way to insure Papal dominance 
over us, and as speedily as possible. 

4. We claim that Romanism, through the confessional, and by the methods of 
plenary indulgences to its adherents, either conduces to the commission of crime, 
or presents no counteractive to it. Take a few instances. The crime of priest- 
ly solicitation to crime through the confessional, in Spain, became so rampant that 
Pope Pius IV" directed the Inquisition to enquire into the facts, and, if possible, 
to put an end to such practices. The Inquisition summoned the attendance of 
all that could inform against the guilty. Maids and matrons of the nobility and 
the peasantry crowded the court. Modesty induced many to go veiled. The 
fair informers in Seville, alone, were so numerous that all the Inquisitors and 
twenty notaries were insufficient in thirty days to take their depositions Thirty 
additional days had three times to be appointed for the reception oFinformations. 
* * "■'• (I must suppress again.) The odium which this discovery threw upon au- 
ricular confession and the priesthood, caused the sacred tribunal to quash the 
prosecution and to consign the depositions to oblivion. -{Gojisdvus, 185; Lor- 
ente, 355 ; Llniborch, IlL^ 17; Ediiar^p. 569.) llie German clergy were as 
debased as those of Spain and England. Their overflowing and uirestricted li- 
centiousness appears with transparent evidence in the unsuspicious testimony of 
German cDuncils, princes, emperors and clergy ; and to show that the evil is not 
extirpated from even the priesthood in this country, we need only cite the words 
of the Roman Catholic Bishop Kenrick of the diocese of Philadelphia, and after- 
wards Archbishop of Baltimore from 185 1 -186;:], the year of his death: "' We 
scarcely dare to speak of the atrocious crime in which the office of hearing con- 
fession is perverted to the ruin of souls by impious men under the influence of 
their lusts." — {Beecher's F'tpal Corispirdc)/, p. 180.) 

We are compelled to pass over this awful chapter of crime, occasioned by the 
confessional so extolled by Mr. Smith, and before him by Basil, Jerome, and Au- 
gustine. These ^Fathers of the Roman church were so specific in enjoining ce- 
hbacy that the language would bring a blush to the cheek of the pagan writers, 
Juvenal and Horace, themselves. 

If we view Rome in connection with other crimes, we shall be startled with 
the facts. In Italy we find the provinces least influenced by Romish ecclesias- 
tics presenting a cleaner bill of morals than those in which they predominate. 
Lombardy, Modena, Venetia, and Parma, with a population of 7,269,597, sent in 
five years, 187 1-5, (ji8 criminals to the galleys, while Naples, an intensely Popish 
State, with a population of 7,175.311, sent, during the same period, 4,072 persons 
to the galleys, in other words, Naples sent nearly seven of her people to the gal- 
leys for every one sent by the N'orthern provinces-!-^ Rome, with the province of 
Latiumr, containing a population of 3,31 1, 530, sent during the same period 1419 
persons to the galleys, while Piedmont, together with Liguori, having a popula- 
tion of 3,743o7^^> sent during the same five years 376 of her people to the same 
punishment. Rome, therefore, has nearly four times as many criminals of the 
worst classes in proportion to her population as Piedmont, while Tuscany during 
that period, sent only twenty-three, out of a population of 1,980,581, to the gal- 
leys. During the same five years, 1871-5, the total condemnations to death in 
the Neapolitan provinces were 92, while similar condemnation was pronounced 
durinfT the same years, by the court of Turin on 17 persons, by that of Casaleon, 
c • by that of Genoa, i ; by those of Milan and Brescia, in each a single case: 
toWl, in the provinces of Piedmont, Liguria and Lombardy, 2:1. 23 to 92 ! — 
' BritlsJi Qt: Rr,ineu\ Oct., 1879, p.p. 228-229.) Take we now a \yider range. 
The following table of comparative numbers of trials for murder are given by Rev. 



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Hobart Seymour, author of " Evenings with the Romanists :" *' According to 
the census next preceding 1854, in Protestant England, there were four trials to 
the million; Roman Catholic, Belgium, 18; Sardinia, 20; France, 31 ; Austria, 
36; Lombardy, 45 to the million ; the Papal States, 113, and Naples, 174. 

In England, suicides to the million, (54; in France, 12 7, while there were 
in the Papal States, in 18G7, according to the French official figures, 186 su- 
icides to each million of the population." — {I»a>'nff.m,p. 624. ) 

In 1305 Pops Clement removed his court from Rome to Avegnon, in France, 
at the instance of Phillip, who occupied the French throne, in order that the 
church should lend him her aid in his ambitious schemes. The results of the 
Papal occupancy upon the morals of the citizens of Avignon are described by a 
CDtemporary as follows : " You imagine that the city of Avignon is the same now 
that it was when you resided in it. Mo, it is now become a terrestrial hell, an 
abode of fiends and devils, a receptacle of all that is most wicked and abomina- 
ble. What I tell you is not from hearsay, but from my own knowledge and ex- 
perience. In this city there is no reverence or fear of God, no faith or charity, 
nothing that is holy, just, equitable or humane. Why should I speak of truth 
when not only the houses, palaces, courts, churches and the thrones of Popes and 
Cardinals, but the very earth and air seem to teem with lies.'" At the coun- 
cil of Lyons. Cardinal Hugo declared : " My friends, we have conferred on this 
place (Avignon ) a great benefit. When we came here there were a number of 
houses of ill-fame ; but now there is one, but that one extends from the eastern 
to the western gate of the city.-' 

Macaulay says of the Papal court : " Its annals are black with treason, mur 
der and incest. Even its more respectable members were utterly unfit to be 
ministers of religion. They were men Hke Leo X, men who with the Latinity of 
the Augustan Age had acquired its atheistical and scoffing spirit." — {.Beechfr\^; 
Papal Consph'ucAf K.vposecl, pp. 362-363. ) AmoTig the documents placed in 
the hands of Victor Immanuel when he came into possession of the city of Bo- 
logna, Ital3\ was a copy of the license given by the municipal authority, which 
was at the time directly under the control of the Cardinal Legate, the well known 
Bedmi, to women of bad repute to ply their trade. At the request of the Aus- 
trian commander of the troops stationed in Bologna (in 1854) the Pope's secreta- 
ry addressed the following missive to the Illustrissimo and Reverendissimo (most 
illustrious and most reverend) Signore at Bologna: "The sanctity of our Lord 
has benignantly deigned at an audience held this morning to nominate the Doc- 
tor Pietro Zuola to be first fiscal surgeon, and Doctor Gisilo Bergazi to render 
gnUuU'Ois serolces to the care oficonien of bad life, the extra ordlaari/ grataity 
loklch the;/ have hitherto received for this service no longer being allotted."' — 
{Inner Home, p 100.) 

The Westminster Gazette. England, a Roman Cathohc paper, says : The 
neglected children of London are chiefly ours, and the lowest of every class, 
whether "thieves or drunkards, are Catholics.'" Says Machiavelli, the famous 
Florentine statesman of the sixteenth century, who lived and died a Roman 
Catholic : "The scandalous examples and the crimes of the court of Rome are 
the causes why Italy has lost every principle of piety and all rehgious feeling. 
We Italians are indebted principally to the church and priests for having become 
impious and immoral." — [Barntim, p. 627.) Savs the pastoral letter of the sec- 
ond plenary council of Baltimore to the Roman CathoUc clergy and laity of this 
country, in 1866 : "It is a melancholy fact, and a very humiliating avowal for us 
to make, that a very large proportion of the idle and vicious youth of our prin- 
cipal cities are the children of Catholic parents." — {See JSarnum in Loc.) You 



can tell by the appearance of the country when you pass frojn a Protestant can- 
ton in Switzerland to a Roman Catholic. The former gives evidence of thrift, 
education, morality ; the latter exhibits squalor, suffering, and vice. 

5. Ronianisni and Brlr/aruldge. In i860 the Neapolitan provinces threw 
off the yoke of Francis II, their Bourbon King, and annexed themselves to those 
of Sardinia, forming at that time the kindgdom of Italy. But the Italian Gov- 
ernment found itself completely paralyzed in the administration of these Sicilian 
States by a powerfully organized system of brigandage. The unprotected villa- 
ges were sacked and their inhabitants put to the sword, so that it was extremely 
hazardous to travel even a short distance into the country without being protect- 
ed by Itahan troop?. Francis II, a devoted child of the Romish church, found 
an asylum within the precincts of the "Eternal City,"' which was then under Pa- 
pal dominance. Rome became thenceforward the chief centre of brigandage in 
Italy. Convents and monasteries were converted into robbers" dens, and instead 
of praying on the rosary nuns, stitched brigands' satchels and knit stockings for 
the feet of highwaymen and cut-throats. At length the Italian Parliament ap- 
pointed a committee to enquire into this lawlessness, and report to it the exact 
state of affairs, and whence arose this appalling evil. This committee, through 
their chairman, Massari, says: " At Rome there is a regular enrollment of a banc 
as of an army which prepares for conflict with the enemy. The convents of Tri- 
sulti and Casinari are notorious receptacles of brigands, and are their their cho- 
sen headquarters. In 1861 Monsignore Montieri, Bishop of the diocese of Lora, 
now deceased, had taken a chamber in the convent of Cassinari and there, with 
the assistance of the Father Abbot of the monastery and of several legitimist for- 
eigners, organized that band of brigands, headed by DeChristen, who were fol- 
lowed and overcome by the brave General Maurizio de Sonaz, The l^ontifical 
police naturally adopt every imaginable precaution to disguise their complicity 
with these miscreants, but their canning, their caution, their astuteness, are neu- 
trahzed by facts. * * * Whenever the brigands have abandoned the frontier and 
have been met and defeated by our troops, they have always been able to re- 
cruit and reorganize by passing over into Roman territory. The Pontifical gov- 
ernment assists them with arms and money and adopts every sort of artifice to 
avoid being detected. * * * A French priest presents himself at the auction of 
military coats and professes to buy them. Then he consigns them to those bri- 
gands for whom they are intended. The Bourbon committees of Altari, of Fro- 
sinone, of Ceccano, of Velletri, of Pratica, bestir themselves to aid the brigands 
in every possible way. On the committee of Frosinone there is a chancellor of 
the Bishop, two Canons and the curate. On that of Ceccano is a person who is 
attached to the household of Cardinal Antonelli. At4lie abbey of the Passionists 
in Ceccano resides a Pontifical gend'arme and two others who serve as guides to 
these miscreants who commit robberies and other crimes, rush Hke Cossacks upon 
innocent persons and unprotected villages, which they burn and plunder, and 
then leap back like goats to the mountains, and who had their ring-leaders at 
Rome."' Says Dr. Butler: "And it is a thing so atrocious that there is no word 
hot enough and sharp enough in the whole vocabulary of indignation, to be hurled 
against those by whom it is fostered and protected. And he who sanctifies and 
promotes this thing is called ' His Hohness ' and the ' Holiness of the Lord !" '' — 
{Inner Rome, by Rev. 0, M. ll'itler, J).D., p. 148 etmq.) 

6. Ram and Romanlvn. In the sermon to the Junior Mechanics the fol- 
lowing words were used : " Romanism furnishes most of the Hquor vendors of 
this country." This Mr. Smith in his verbal sermon, as well as in that published 
in The National Democrat, does not deny. We now proceed to the proof. 



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N'i7ieteen twentieths of the Rotnaa Catholic priests in this country and at this 
daycare loine bibbers^ while 99-100 of the priests in Europe are in the same cat- 
egory. We rarely find the priests taking any part in prominent reforms, while 
upon Protestants devolves the care of their criminal multitudes. Rome may 
point to Father Matthew, the great Irish apostle of temperance. We accord to 
that noble, sacrificing philanthropist, the honors that he richly earned ; but it is a 
well known fact that not only did the priesthood look with indifference upon the 
arduous labors undertaken by him, but too often they presented obstacles to that 
reformation which were an affliction to that good man. Father Matthew died in 
comparative neglect by the Roman priesthood, and they shed no tears upon his 
demise. To-day Rome places the baa upon every temperance organization that 
plights its membership with a sacred vow to abstain from the use of intoxicants, 
nor will she allow a member of her communion to join any of the secret temper- 
ance organizations of Christendom, but would rather see them kicked as drunk- 
ards into the ditch to die, than to become a " Good Templar," or a " Son of 
Temperance." Look at this picture of Columbus, O., a few years ago : " The 
Roman CathoHcs hold the power, and have for years : and hence we have not 
been able, within my knowledge, to elect a municipal officer who has not, either 
at the outset or the issue, or both, drank and gambled, and been notoriously 
profligjate besides. * * * Hard upon a thousand grog-shops openly defy the law, 
* * * and we cannot get a grand jury in the county that will find a bill of indict 
ment against either the proprietor of a faro bank, a liquor saloon, or a brothel, 
though the law is stringent against them all. -{i>e<i. Barnutn^ p. 697.) 

Last year, within the walls of the grand Roman Catholic Cathedral, on Fifth- 
avenue, New- York, the boast of the entire denomination, to procure funds, the 
hierarchy, directly, or through their principal members, held a fair at which liq- 
uor was liberally dispensed, and men tossed drunken heads, and rolled delirious 
eyes within the walls where Vespers are now said and the incense of the Mass 
perfumes the altar and where penitents kneel low to confess into the ear of the 
priest. 

Says The Springfield {III.) Journal, ma recent number : "A Roman Ca- 
tholic fair for the benefit of St. Peter and Paul church was held in the G. A. R. 
Hall. The ladies had a number of tables with a variety of articles for sale and 
raffle (! • A supper table was arranged with substantial viands. The polls were 
opened, and the voting commenced for a handsome arm-chair, a number of mea- 
sures and a silver pitcher. The voting for the different prizes offered resulted as 
follows when the polls closed last night : For the most popular saloon keeper, a 
silver pitcher, Michael O'Connor ; the next popular liquor dealer, a set of poHsh- 
ed measures (for dealing out the infernal poison to helpless drunkards), L. S. 
Ensel ; the most popular brewing company, Frank Reisch." — (See Christian 
Herald^ Jan. 29, 1880, p. 73.) In Spain and in Central America the priests are 
the generous patrons of bull-fights and gambling. 

Rev. Mr. Smith claims that he is a native born American, or *' born on the 
soil," as used in my former sermon. No doubt he prides himself on this. I 
think it will be admitted that there is a truer and more exalted temperance sen- 
timent among us than in any other land. The great evangeUcal churches de- 
nounce the sale of liquor with a fearlessness that is truly refreshing. Some, as 
the Methodist, insert a total abstinence clause in their rules governing the ad- 
mission of members. Now, Mr. Smith knows this ; he knows that we are round- 
ing out the most intellectual century which has dawned upon the world, yet in 
the year of grace 1879, said Rev. Mr. Smith held a fair on his church property for 
two weeks in this city of Rahway, in which alcoholic drinks were peddled, men 



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reeled in intoxication, muttered their maudlin jests in the accents of sots and 
reeled home to wives and children from the fair for the benefit of St. Marys Ro- 
man Catholic church. And when the attention of the Rev. S. B. Smith, the par- 
ish priest who was " born on the soil," raised in this land of sturdy temperance 
principles, of sound moral activities, of wise and rich and numerous ministries, 
''raised," 1 say, "on the soil, ' that boasts of philanthropists, jurists, scholars and 
an open Bible, when his attention was called to the drunkenness that surged 
around him, he remarked "O, they are only having a little innocent pleasure." 
In the light of our precious Bible this priest calls drunkenness, which that vol- 
ume declares that "No drunkard shall enter the kingdom of Heaven,'' innocent 
AMUSEMENT ! Let uot the citizens of ^Rahway ever forget that Rev. S. B. Smith 
calls drunkenness an innocent annisement\ I now assert upon the authority of 
an eye withess that in his opinion there was more drunkenness upon Roman Ca- 
tholic consecrated ground at that fair, which lasted two weeks, thau had been 
seen in the'city of Rahway, which contains about thirty saloons and over eight 
thousand mhabitants, for a whole year previously. I understand that when Mr. 
S.nith hxd finished his sarmon a run-ssller of this city shook hands 
with him, and presented him with his warmest congratulations. Rum and 
JRome. Did the 10 or Id ever vn'ness sucJia brld(dpah\ioho pligJded Iiopeaud 
cheer at the altar of St. Mary's Boman Catholic (Jhurch, Rahway, N. J. ? 

Shall I add to this painful category the connection of the Roman Catholic 
church with Tweed's robber government of New- York City ? When Tweed was 
in e:«^r6m^V7 this church wrung from him $200,000 from the city treasury while 
■Connolly held the keys, for the completing of the above cathedral; and in the 
very year in which Tweed was hurled from power that church received from the 
impoverished city nearly $800,000 for the support of her conventual and other 
sectarian institutions. This list is in answer to Mr. Smith's question, "Who are 
the corrupt parties to which Rome has allied herself ?'" I might extend the fist 
almost indefinitely and present scenes too revolting for common or pubHc view. 
But we desist ; we leave the Stygian mass until that day when all these matters 
shall be revealed and men wilhnot refuse to hear the awful tragedies of Rome 
before the tribunal of Eternal Majesty ! 

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE LATE REBELLION. 

Rev. Mr. Smith refers with much complacency to the War of the Rebellion, 
and quotes Courtland Parker to that effect. There were many Irishmen in the 
Union army who fought bravely ; but were they all Romanists ? Is* it not true 
that some of them were the staunchest Protestants ? How many loyal sermons 
were preached from Roman Catholic altars during that eventful time ? How 
many prayers were offered by priestly lips for the siiccesss of the Union forces ? 
Mr.. Hughes was then Roman Cathohc Archbishop of New-York, and on the 
commencement of hostiUties it seems that he was loyal ; but loyalty then was 
cheap, for all thought that the Rebellion would be hardly a nine months' strug 
gle. In 1857 the Papal party in Mexico suffered a terrible defeat. Having ru- 
ined the country, as seen from Dr. Butler's letter, and been thwarted in their fur- 
ther schemes, they applied to the Pope for assistance in order to regain their for- 
mer position, and push the aggrandizement of Rome as usual in Mexico. The 
astute Jesuits abroad, and ordinary thinkers at home, saw the inevitable conflict 
in the near future, in this country and when that struggle opened, then came the 
hour for them to strike ! 

A permanent breach between the North and South was just what 
suited the Jesuits. Napoleon, called the III, was then Emperor of the French ; 
his wife, as all know, was and is a devoted adherent of the Pope. Napoleon had 



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had a misunderstanding with Roman Catholic Austria, who was defeated by him at 
Solferino. How to heal that breach, tor reasons of State with Napcleon, but with 
Eugenie for reasons of church, was the important question. Maximillian was the 
heir-apparent to the Austrian crown, taking precedence even of the children of 
his brother, the reigning Emperor Francis Joseph. The cry from Mexico was 
now heeded by the Jesuits, and the plot was well laid. Napoleon offered to move 
Mixim^Uian out of the way of the Austrian crown by seating him upon the new 
made throne of Mexico by French legitimists. Napoleon brought every influence 
to bear upon Lord Palmerston, the then Prime Minister of P2ngland, to recog- 
nize the claims of the Southern confederacy to the rights of belligerents, but fail- 
ed. Nevertheless, troops were dispatched from France, and Maximillian was 
crowned Emperor of Mexico. While the negotiations were on foot Archbishop 
Hughes was summoned to Rome in 1862, where he was made acquainted with 
the plot and on his return to New- York his ardor had cooled considerably. In 
the autumn of that year (1862) Pope Pius IX addressed a letter to the Arch- 
bishops of New- York and N"ew-Orleans to employ their prayers and their influence 
for the restoration of peace, which meant, simply, the establishmentt of the con- 
federacy. Jcferson Davis in his offlcial capacity addressed a letter to the " Most 
Venerable Chief of the Holy See and Sovereign Pontiff of the Roman Cathohc 
Church,'' thanking him in his own name and in that of the Confederate States, 
for his Christian charity and love,'' declaring that they were desirous of peace. 
To this conm'Aaicatioa the Pope replied on Dec. 3, 1862, addressing his letter 
to the "Illustrious and Honorable Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate 
States of America," and expressing his gratification that Mr. Davis appreciated 
his letters to the Archbishops, and stating his (Pope's) people were anxious for 
the cessation of hostilities, lliis was the only official recognition the chief of 
conspirators receioecl by the head of any government. — {Lossing's War of the 
llKbellion, vol. 3, p. 47.) 

In 1863 the conscription was resisted in New- York. (You perceive the close 
connections of these events.) Will Mr. Smith tell us by whom ? Jews, atheists 
and Protestants were drafted as well as Roman Catholics, but which party resist- 
ed, and this at a time when the National resources were strained to their utmost 
tension ? Who was it that levelled telegraph poles, and twisted the wires into 
iron batons with which to cash out mens' brains in the public streets of that city ? 
And when Archbishop Hughes, having returned the fall before from Rome, ad- 
dressed the infuriated mob from the steps of the City Hall, New- York, when their 
hands were red with the blood of defenseless colored men, or smutty with the 
blazing torches which they flung into the colored orphan asylum, did he repri- 
mand them with the severity which their acts deserved ? No ! He said that he 
'•Saw nO hatred in these mens' eyes, and no blood on their hands,'' and admin- 
istered syllabub when it should have been anathemas. 

It should be remembered that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was 
planned in the home of a devout Roman Catholic ; one of its prominent abettors 
was a Roman Catholic, who fled to Lower Canada, a Roman province, was se- 
creted in a convent, and to insure his safety he entered the army of the Pope in 
Rome. This, taken in connection with the other events which transpired about 
that time, reflect no credit upon the Roman Catholic church, and it certainly 
cannot be taken as an inspirer of patriotism. — i^See Van Dyke's Popery, p. 248.) 

These are unpleasant memories to call up, but Mr. Smith has called them up 
and to an extent has gloried in them ! This is my apology ; and this man should 
have remembered that the generation is not yet dead which witnessed such bru- 



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talities by members of his communion, and for him to misrepresent facts of which 
thousands now living were cognizant, is certainly to be deplored. 

ROME DANGEROUS TO AMERICA. 

We come now, in the last place, to consider the menace of the Church of 
Rome to the institutions of this country. I have shown to the satisfaction of 
every unprejudiced mind what she has been in other lands, and the question aris- 
ing here is, "Is Rome the same now and in this country what she has been and 
is in other lands ?" She is ! and I defy successful contradiction of this affirmation. 
Her boast is Stmper et uhique eadem ! always and everywhere the same. But 
lest I might be charged with misrepresentation, let me quote a few passages 
which prove my assertion. The Catholic World, New- York, for July, i87o, 
says : " The Catholic like the church, is one and the same, in all ages and all 
times. We do not hesitate to affirm that in performing our duties as citizens, 
electors, and public officers, we should always, and under all circumstances, act 
simply as CathoHcs.'' Says Charles Butler, a great Roman Catholic authority: 
" It is most true that the Roman CathoHcs beheve the doctrines of their church 
to be unchangeable, and that it is a tenet of the creed that what their faith ever 
has been, such it was from the beginning, such it is now, and such it ever will 

be.'^ 

In the Syllabus of Pope Pius IX of 1864, and in his Encyclical Letter and 
confirmed and re-announced with all the pretensions of the Eucumenical Council 
of i87o, we have the following culled from many others of similar interest : 

1. The Pope does not require the assent of the temporal power of the nation 
for the exercise of his authority. 

2. The Roman Pontiffs and Eucumenical councils in the past have not ex- 
ceeded their rights in their decisions. 

3. The church can avail herself of force in the support of her claims. 

4. The church should not be excluded from temporal dominion. 

5. The clergy must be exempt from many of the duties of citizens as milita- 
ry duty, etc. 

6. In case of conflict the civil power must yield to the church. 

7. The entire direction of public education must be in the hands of the 

priests. 

8. The church ought not to be separated from the state. 

9. Freedom of worship is false, dangerous, and must not be permitted. 

10. The Roman Pontiff ought not to reconcile himself with the civilization 
and progress of the age. 

11. The State has no right to prescribe the forai or execute the bond of 
matrimony. In other words, civil marriage is a sin, and should be aboUshed. So 
says Leo XIII in his latest EncycHcal, two weeks ago. 

According to SadUer's Catholic directory for i88o there are now in the 
United States 5,989 priests, 24 Roman CathoHc seminaries, 1,136 ecclesiastical 
students or priests in embryo, 2,246 parochial schools with 405,234 pupils. The 
Roman Catholic population numbers 6,143,222, and now when we consider the 
attitude of this church to our government, grave apprehensions are felt for its 
safety. Rev. Dr. Brownson says : "She (the Roman Catholic church) is under 
God the supreme judge of both laws which for her are one law. The state is 
therefore only an inferior court, bound to receive the law from the supreme court 
(church) and liable to have its decrees reversed on appeal." — {Essays, pp. 282- 
284.) ''"The people need governing, and must be governed. They must have a 
master. * * * The religion which answers our purpose must be above the people 



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and able to command them. Such is the Catholic religion ♦ * * and in this 
sense we wish this country to come under the Pope of Rome." — Ibid. 

Out of the Roman States, says Pope Gregory XVI a few years ago, there is 
no country where I am Pope except the United States !'' — ( Tkompson^ p. 38.) 
The Catholic World again says : "While the State has some rights she has them 
only in virtue and by permission of the superior authority, and that authority can 
only be expressed through the church." -{Jul}/, i87o.) 

The Pittsburgh Catholic Visitor says : "We hate Protestantism, we detest 
It with our whole heart and soul, and we pray our aversion to it may never de- 
crease." 

The Shepherd of the Valley of St. Louis, says ; "For the Holy Father 
(Pope) to grant freedom of worship to Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Socin- 
ians and Mormons (sic) would not be less than to enter into a compact with the 
enemy." 

Again, "We gain nothing by declaiming so earnestly against the doctrine of 
civil punishment for spiritual crimes. Our antagonists will not believe that we 
are better than our church, and for her, her history is before them. They know 
what she sanctioned during the middle ages, what she did then and does now 
where she can." 

Says the Rambler, another Roman Catholic paper, "If it would benefit the 
cause of Catholicism he (Pope) would tolerate you ; if expedient, he would im- 
prison you, banish you, fine you — possibly he might hang you.'' Says another 
Roman authority : "If the CathoHcs ever gain an immense numerical majority re- 
ligious freedom in this country is at an end." Cardinal McCloskey says : "The 
Catholics of the United States are as devoted to the maintenance of the tempo 
ral power of the Pope as those of any other country, and if it should be necessa- 
ry to prove it by acts, they are ready to do so." 

In a letter dated January 10, 1835, Senator Duncan, of Ohio, says he was 
grossly insulted in the streets of ( incinnati for refusing to take off his hat in rev- 
erence to a Popish Bishop who was passing in procession to dedicate a Romish 
chapel. On being requested to remove his hat the Senator rephed that "it 
would not comport with his dignijy as an American citizen so to do," whereupon 
his hat was snatched from his head, his clothes were torn, and his person abused 
and beaten. — {See the Gineiimati Journal, Jan. 23, I835.) 

The Duke of Richmond, who was Governor General of Canada half a cen- 
tury or more ago, a man of wide experience among the courts of Europe and of 
liberal culture, said in 1819, "The church of Rome has a design upon the United 
States, and it will in time be the established religion and will aid in the destruc- 
tion of the*republic."—(/?r<r;i'Mm, p. 701.) 

To no one man of a foreign nation is this country more deeply indebted than 
to the Marquis DeLafayette, who generously contributed of his private means to 
the support of the Revolution and who was largely instrumental, as we know, in 
procuring for Franklin a hearing for his cause before the French court, and this 
same Lafayette, it need hardly be mentioned, risked all the dangers and endured 
all the privations of that memorable campaign. No one man knew better than 
did he the fatal influence of Romanism upon civil government, for from his child- 
hood he was taught to reverence that church to veneration. What are his words? 
'^ If euer t'le liberty of the United Staters is destroyed, ir icill be hy Romish 
priests."*' Mr. Smith has quoted Washington in 1775. Why did he not quote 
him later when he had become acquainted, as executive, with the dangers attend- 
ing the maintenance of a free government in the United States ? Simply because 
it would upset his (Mr. Smith's) fine spun but fragile theories. Says Washington 



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in his Farewell Address : "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I con- 
jure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be 
constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one 
of the most baneful foes of repubhcan government." 

EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 

Education is a matter that vitally afl"ects this nation. No country of ordina- 
ry intelligence will allow the manacles of a cruel and despotic ecclesiasticism to 
fetter her influence. Rome knows that while we maintain our national system of 
education she cannot succeed in her ambitious schemes ; hence she bends all the 
engineries within her reach to destroy what every man knows is essential to a re- 
publican form of government. Probably many good people thought I drew large- 
ly on my imagination when I used the foUowiug language : "Through the citadel 
of conscience she (Rome) directs her terrible enginery and compels political obe- 
dience by fulminating her anathemas." This the Rev. Mr. Smith imperiously re 
sents. Is this the language of a heated brain or of a calm judgment ? Let me 
show which it is. Instead of the Roman CathoHc church preventing emigration, 
in which effort she has failed, she has "carried the war into Africa' and fights 
Hannibal upon his own field. Our educational system allowed a chapter of the 
Bible to be read during school hours. The priests deasianded the rescinding of 
this order. It was done in many instances. Then they turned round and called 
our schools godless ! Godless, remember, when we obeyed their behests ! Our 
schools were godless as our text-books contained true history, had no pater aves, 
no Ave Marias, no Saints' calenders, no laudation of image worship, no loud prais- 
es lor the Holy Pope, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the sacred relics. Hence, 
the public schools were denounced with unsparing severity. Finally the exasper- 
ated public repUed to them thus : "We have excluded the Bible at your request, 
we have carefully eHminated every feature that could off'end your conscience from 
our text-books, and yet you demand the complete abolition of our common school 
system, and the taxes levied by law to be diverted into sectarian channels con- 
trary to the express provisions of that law ! No, gentlemen, never shall we con- 
sent to your unscrupulous demands ! Never !" Give Rome an inch and she 
will take an ell. Wherever she thrusts her head her whole body is sure to fol- 
low. 

Says the Freeman^ s Journal : "What we Roman Catholics must do now is 
to get our children out of this devouring fire — these pits of perdition which He in- 
vitingly in the way under the name of public or district schools." "Let the pub- 
lic school system go to where it came from — the Devil. Wh want Christian 
schools, and the State cannot tell us what Christianity is." (Dec. ii, 1869.) "Re- 
solved, That the public or common schools in New- York city are a swindle on the 
people, an outrage on justice, a foul disgrace in matters of morals, and that it im- 
ports the State Legislature to aboHsh them forthwith." — {Freemaji''s Journal.) 

Says the Cotholic 7 elegraph of iAncinnsiti : "It will be a glorious day for 
the Catholics in this country when under the blows of justice and morality our 
school system will be shivered to pieces ; until then modern Paganism will tri- 
umph." Suppose for a moment we grant these requests, what will Rome give 
us is in return as an education ? According to the census of 1864, out of a total 
population in Italy of 21,703,710 souls, 16,999,701 could neither read nor write; 
in Sicily, more than nine-tenths of the inhabitants could neither read or write ; in 
Spain, by the last general census, it was found that out of 16,000,000 of a popu- 
lation only 2,414,014 men and 715,906 women could read and write — 3,129,921 
out of 16,000,000. — {MarthCs Yeor- Book for i^-jo.) In Europe one in every 



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t2n of the inhabitants in Protestant countries are at school, while but one in i24 
only are in school in Roman Catholic countries. 

The Catholic World claims that the people in the Middle Ages were better 
educated they are at present, though all that time they could neither read nor 
write; but they obeyed implicitly their priests. The instiUing into the minds 
of children, of plastic nature, who are afterwards to become citizens, principles 
of hatred to the institutions of the country, and constant laudations of a foreign 
prince are both detrimental to the education necessary for the citizen to possess as 
it is partizan, and so defective and treasonable, and should be r^^pudiated 
by State or national authority. If these children were not to become 
citizens, it would not then be the danger it now is. It therefore imports the 
State to see that nothing is taught its children that can be construed as inimical 
to its life by any party, church or society. 

Bishop McCloskey of Kentucky, late in 1879, says : "Now it is our will and 
command that where there is a Catholic school in a parish the parents and guar- 
dians in such places send their children or wards to such Cathohc school, and we 
hereby direct that this obligation be enforced under pain of refusal of absolution, 
in the Sacrament of Penance. — iChrlstUni Herald^ Jan. 15, 1880.) 

"Father" Scully of St. Mary's Catholic church, Cambridgeport, Mass., open- 
ed a parochial school about five years ago and ordered all parents belonging to 
the parish to send their children to it. Many did so, but some refused, prefer- 
ring the public schools. "Father" Scully proceeded to coercive measures and de- 
nied the sacrament to the dying because their children were sent to the public 
schools. At length a committee waited on Archbishop Wood, of Boston, and 
presented their grievances to him. That committee were told by the Archbishop 
that he fully approved of Father Scully's proceedings, and that he was pained any 
Catholic could suspect him of doing otherwise. At a meeting of the parish at 
which this committee reported their interview withi the Archbishop, "Father" 
Scully arose and said : "I did it (witheld the sacrament) because it was my duty 
to do it; because my mother, the church, as she is of you all, through the decis- 
ions of Rome, and the proclamations and statutes of the Bishops in the various 
parts of the world have ordered that wherever Catholic schools are estabHshed. 
the Catholics of the parishes in which they are must, imder pain of mortal sl/i, 
send their children to them or be denied the sacraments. The Archbishop of 
Boston knows everything that I have done, and with regard to these miserable 
and fooHsh men and women of this parish who call themselves Catholics, the 
Archbishop savs, 'Pass them by and take no notice of them.' " To show the 
methods of ''Father'" Scully s government, I now present two samples of depo- 
sitions which are as follows : "An Irish woman makes affidavit that on the 30th 
of May, 1878, she asked Father Scully, who had y)reviously annointed her hus- 
band, to call upon him as he was very ill. He said he would not till she sent her 
children to his school. She told him she would after her husband's death if he 
would come. He said to me," the woman swears, ''Would you wish me or any 
other good priest to go down there and damn his soul ?" I told him there was 
not a more broken-hearted woman in the parish than myself, and begged and en- 
treated him to come. He persistently refused, and although I saw him drive by 
my house twice that day, he did not call, and my husband died the followmg day 
without receiving the sacrament.'' Another woman swears that she withdrew 
her thirteen -year old boy from Father Scully's parochial school because of a flog- 
ging administered on his bare back for truancy, so severe, that h^ was unable to 
sit upon a chair or lie upon his back m bed for two weeks. Her husband, who was 
a confirmed invaHd, was taken suddenly worse ; she sent for Father Scully ; he 



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came, and on his being informed the child went to the pubHc school, he refused 
to administer the sacrament. The woman promised to send her son to the pa- 
rochial school next term. Then said Father Scully, "If you wish to take the 
chances of your husband Hving until next September, you may do so." "Why Fath- 
er," was the agonized reply, "God knows he can Hve only a tew days." "Well,'' 
he said, "I will do nothing for your husband until you comply with my wishes I'' 
The next day the boy went to the parish school, Father Scully administered the 
sacrament to the dying man, iaiproving the opportunity of upbraiding the woman 
in no gentle terms, for letting the breath go out of her husband's body before at- 
tending to the needs of his soul. — ( The Independent^ N'ov. 20, 1879.) I there- 
fore ask, Is it not true that "Rome through the citadel of conscience directs her 
terrible enginery and compels political obedience by fulminating her anathemas?'' 
I now am done. Never would I have entered the arena of debate, if Rev. Mr. 
Smith had not imperiously summoned me thereto, and I want here and now to say 
that when my pulpit utterances are called in question and their veracity in gener- 
al impugned, I shall ever defend them in that pulpit from which they were deHv- 
ered, and every upright man, and every sincere Christian will say Amen ! 

I beg to address a few remarks to my intelligent Roman CathoHc friends who 
are present to-night. Are the priests your friends ? It seems a strange question 
to ask, but I ask it nevertheless. We have taken a collection to-night for the fam- 
ishing in Ireland. Remember it was the Pope of Rome that gave that helpless 
isle to Henry of England, whose army ravaged the people and spread desolation 
everywhere. As Mr. Smith truly says in the fifth century, Ireland was noted for 
its piety and scholarship. You may say that it is because England is Protestant 
that Ireland does not prosper. But did Ireland prosper when England was a Ro- 
man Catholic nation? She did not ; and I emphasize that denial When James 
the Second obtained French mercenaries, who were all Roman Cotholics to assist 
him in expelling his son-in law, William of Orange, from Ireland, they (mercena- 
ries) trampled on the Irishmen that flocked to their standard, so much so that 
many of their leaders left the French camp in disgust. 

In the famine in Ireland in 1847, when England sent over to her helpless 
millions almost fifteen miUions of dollars, I have seen it stated that only a small 
fraction of it went to Ulster, which is largely Protestant, while the rest went into 
the south and west provinces. I hold in my hand the New- York Herald, of July 
4, 1880, whose proprietor is a Roman CathoUc — James Gordon Bennett. We 
have here tabulated the statistics of suffering in 22 counties. Only three of the 
counties upon the list are denominated Protestant, while there are nineteen coun- 
ties termed Roman Catholic, in which the Protestants are an insignificant minor- 
ity. In the three Protestant counties we find 12,768 persons and 2,050 famiHes 
destitute, while in the 19 Roman Cathohc counties we have 121,544 persons and 
26,772 famiHe.3 suffering, with a large prospective increase. Now, why is this? 
Certainly these figures have not been tampered with in favor of Protestantism by 
a Roman Catholic journal. Nor can it be in the tenure of the land-holdings for 
Roman Catholic tenants are not discriminated against as in favor of Protestants, 
the law of tenancy being the same for both classes. The late Dr. Murray, pastor 
of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, N. J., in one of his letters to the 
late Archbishop Hughes, giyes the reasons for Ireland's destitution. Dr. Murray 
was an Irishman and a Roman Cathohc up to his early manhood, but becoming 
enhghtened by the Holy Bible he studied theology and became a leading divine 
in the Presbyterian denomination of this country. 

"Popery," says Dr. Murray "meets the people at the qradle and dogs them 



to che grave and beyond it with its demnnds for money. When the ciiild is liap- 
tized the priest anist have money, when the mother is churched the priest rnusr 
have money, when the boy is confirmed the Bishop must have money, when he 
goes to confession the priest must have money, when he partakes of the Eucha- 
rist the priest must have money, when visited in sickness the priest must have 
money. If he wants a charm against the witches he must pay for it, when he is 
buried his friends must pay for the burial. After mass is said over his remains a 
plate is placed on the coffin and the people collected together on the occasion 
are expected to deposit their contributions on the plate. Then the priest pock 
ets the money while the people carry the body to the ^Tave. And then, however 
good the person, his soul has gone to purgatory, and however bad, his soul has 
to stop there. And then comes the money for prayers and masses for deliver- 
ance from purgatory, which prayers and masses are continued as long as the 
money is paid. Can we wonder at the poverty and degradation of Ireland ? — 
{Kirwin's Lfttc.f.^ to Arrhhishop Hughes, pp. 50-51. > 

In Ireland the Roman Catholic cathedrals and churches vie with any in this 
countrv, eclipsing eveo the magnificent cathedral on Fifth-avenue, New-York, and 
for every such edifice completed, the Pope must receive a bonus, all of which has 
to come out of the pockets of the laboring man who is glad to get a shilling a da\' 
for nine months of the year, and the hard-working servant girl. As we have seen, 
Ireland is passing through another severe ordeal of famine. Her famishing chil- 
dren are stretching out starved lingers to every passerby for bread. Many no- 
ble gifts are leaving this country for her wailing shores. The Herald fund is 
reaching $300,000 already, Congress by joint resolution has chartered, oris about 
to, a vessel to convey to her provisions from a generous people. Yet Cardinal 
McOloskey has sent within two weeks 60,000 francs to the Pope while Ireland 
herself last week contributed 100,000 francs to the Papal exchequer at Rome 1 
This from men and women hungry for bread. That same Pope sustains almost 
innumerable servants, guards, lackeys and retainers, Uves in kingly style, con- 
tributes to the College of the Propaganda in Rome hundreds of thousands of 
dollars for the purpose of proselyting Protestants ; could and did support daily, 
weekly and monthly papers in Germany with which to inoculate the people with 
disloyalty ; is sending men and money into our frontier settlements. South and 
West, and dotting them with mission churches, while a week ago the Pope paid 
an almost fabulous price for some musty manuscripts, and yet, not a copper for 
starving Ireland, but he is taking the money from the hands of her famished 
multitudes with which to accompHsh these things. Let us come nearer home. 
Mr. Smith has in his membership men and women who are denied by poverty (we 
speak of it with deep sadness ■ not only the luxuries but many of the necessaries 
of life. He has not hfted even a basket collection to rehevtr the suffering fathers, 
and mothers, and the brothers and sisters of the very people who support him, 
and whom he has speciously lauded in his published diatribe, while he has pub- 
lished or caused to be published 1,300 copies of his pamphlet, sells them for 25 
cents each, makes at least 22 cents profit on every sale, so that he is endeavor- 
ing to make on Irish ignorance $286.00 for the fattening of his larder or to help 
buy wine for his beloved Bishop ! A philanthropi.r priest^ truly ! 

[Note — .Mr. Smith took a collection in his church for the Irish famine fund 
after this sermon was prepared but not till we had announced a collection in our 
church for the object, which, of course, he had heard, and so forestalled our ac- 
tion and this argument.] 

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for his people what he himself is not even attempting to do is it any wonder that 
we cannot suppress our indignation ? 

We are all in a land of liberty ; some of us born here and some born else- 
where, but we all are now enjoying a freedom unparalelledin history. Let us be 
oyal to the flag that floats above us, to the civilization that surrounds us, to the 
Blessed Bible which proclaims Hberty to the captives and the opening of the pris- 
on to them that are bound to the institutions, civil and religious, that flourish in 
our midst, and which are conservative of true liberty, and God, even our own 
God, will crown us with His richest favors and His hoUest benedictions. May it 
be so for Christ's sake, A-mcn. 




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